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<blockquote data-quote="boondocks" data-source="post: 1186035" data-attributes="member: 20599"><p>I don't know if there was a subsequent concern raised or what. Not that close to the situation but have been told by people directly involved that they are still being watched to make sure. We don't know a whole lot about prions yet. They are very hardy bits of infectious proteins; nonliving yet hard to get rid of...</p><p></p><p>I think there's plenty of blame to go around on the Ebola thing. No one has acquitted themselves particularly well in my book. We need to start funding research science more and not assume the private sector can handle it all. Re Ebola, Africans (by and large) can't afford Western-style meds (or vaccines) so none were developed by the private pharmaceutical companies. That's all well and fine until all of a sudden <strong>we </strong>need it ourselves. Then we expect it to be available on the spot. </p><p></p><p>Some balls have been seriously dropped the past few weeks. But in terms of the drug development side of things, if, at this time last year, our taxes had been paying to bring the as-yet-experimental ZMapp treatment (or other Ebola meds/vaccines) fully to market (and maybe subsidized for affected countries), half the US would have been screaming about "our hard-earned tax dollars going to treat those #@!." We need to think bigger-picture, and longer-term, and realize that we need to invest in science for our own sake, if nothing else. By the time we need a vaccine for something like this, it's too late.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boondocks, post: 1186035, member: 20599"] I don't know if there was a subsequent concern raised or what. Not that close to the situation but have been told by people directly involved that they are still being watched to make sure. We don't know a whole lot about prions yet. They are very hardy bits of infectious proteins; nonliving yet hard to get rid of... I think there's plenty of blame to go around on the Ebola thing. No one has acquitted themselves particularly well in my book. We need to start funding research science more and not assume the private sector can handle it all. Re Ebola, Africans (by and large) can't afford Western-style meds (or vaccines) so none were developed by the private pharmaceutical companies. That's all well and fine until all of a sudden [b]we [/b]need it ourselves. Then we expect it to be available on the spot. Some balls have been seriously dropped the past few weeks. But in terms of the drug development side of things, if, at this time last year, our taxes had been paying to bring the as-yet-experimental ZMapp treatment (or other Ebola meds/vaccines) fully to market (and maybe subsidized for affected countries), half the US would have been screaming about "our hard-earned tax dollars going to treat those #@!." We need to think bigger-picture, and longer-term, and realize that we need to invest in science for our own sake, if nothing else. By the time we need a vaccine for something like this, it's too late. [/QUOTE]
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