US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/09/us-health-ebola-vaccine-idUSKBN0JN1S920141209

by silver1 • 12 years ago

19 5 12 years ago

tekromancr• 12 years ago

This is beyond scary... Tuskegee experiment, anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

hga2• 12 years ago

So on the slight chance the people involved are seriously unethical, you're willing to dice with a disease that could well kill billions prior to discovery/proof of effectiveness, mass production, and mass distribution of a vaccine, all together which will take years at best?

dogma1138• 12 years ago

So this is how the Zombie apocalypse begins...

psychobabble• 12 years ago

experimental vaccine == theoretical solution

pretty sure my project and QA mgrs would not go for that on any given Sunday.

hga2• 12 years ago

Well, by definition all vaccines start out as experimental ones.

This action is designed to protect companies in their initial Phase 1 safety testings, which for obvious reasons is done with 1st World volunteers before they move to Africa.

Vaccine engineering is also a fairly well understood technology by now.

US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers

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