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US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers
- tekromancr 12y agoThis is beyond scary... Tuskegee experiment, anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
- hga 12y agoSo 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 12y agoSo this is how the Zombie apocalypse begins...
- psychobabble 12y agoexperimental vaccine == theoretical solution pretty sure my project and QA mgrs would not go for that on any given Sunday.
- hga 12y agoWell, 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.