Top infectious disease specialist says Ebola vaccine not far away
From the article:
The nation’s top infectious disease official says there’s hope that a vaccine against Ebola will be available as early as next July.
Dr. Anthony Fauci (FOW’-chee) of the National Institutes of Health says such a preventive vaccine has been successfully tested with monkeys.
Fauci tells “CBS This Morning” that human trials with volunteers will commence in September, and by July it should be ready.
When is the last time – or the first time – that you heard of any medication that is given to a person.. that has not even been the first day in a human clinic trial ?
How many times have we seen pleas for “compassionate use” of drug(s) that are in latter human clinical trials because a otherwise terminal pt has exhausted all available therapies and the use of a yet to be approved medication is basically a “hail Mary pass” to try and save a life.. to only see the FDA DENY the use of the drug on a particular pt.
But it would appear that if you are otherwise terminal with a contagious disease.. then the FDA seems to turn a “blind eye” into using a medication/serum that has not even started human clinical trials.
So.. it would seem that individually your life may not be worth the FDA to agree with the compassionate use of medication.. unless using you as a guinea pig to potentially saving your life .. along with untold others… is an acceptable use of a unapproved/untested medication ?
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