Canadian Bureaucrats Tried To Stop Ebola Vaccine Development
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 9:47 pm
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[quote]In Guinea, it is known as the Canadian vaccine.
They showed a single dose of the vaccine was up to 100 per cent effective in protecting against Ebola after 10 days. The results made global headlines and the WHO declared the world was “on the verge of a highly effective Ebola vaccine.â€
Stephen McGurk, acting president at the International Development Research Centre and a vice-president, programs and partnership, a key Canadian participant in the Guinea vaccine trials, calls the results extraordinary.
“Having a successful trial in a critical disease is extremely rare. Under emergency conditions to have a trial as successful as this one — with 100 per cent efficacy — is once in a lifetime.
[b]“The significance of this vaccine cannot be overstated.â€[/b][/quote]
Sounds great, right? Something to be proud
of, as a Canadian. But of course:
[quote]Plummer routinely fended off questions from within the federal bureaucracy
about the value of Ebola research, something he calls a [b]“low level constant battle.â€[/b]
“Why are you doing Ebola research? We don’t have Ebola in Canada,†Plummer says he was often asked.
He successfully made the case that the research was part of the lab’s mandate, and important.
The work continued, said Plummer, a recipient of the prestigious Gairdner prize for
his groundbreaking research on HIV in Africa, [b]“because the scientists were insistent
and because I pushed it.â€[/b][/quote]
Thanks again, Federal bureaucrats! You're a big help, as always.
One has to wonder if the usual creeps in the bureaucracy
had any racial motivation.
[quote]In Guinea, it is known as the Canadian vaccine.
They showed a single dose of the vaccine was up to 100 per cent effective in protecting against Ebola after 10 days. The results made global headlines and the WHO declared the world was “on the verge of a highly effective Ebola vaccine.â€
Stephen McGurk, acting president at the International Development Research Centre and a vice-president, programs and partnership, a key Canadian participant in the Guinea vaccine trials, calls the results extraordinary.
“Having a successful trial in a critical disease is extremely rare. Under emergency conditions to have a trial as successful as this one — with 100 per cent efficacy — is once in a lifetime.
[b]“The significance of this vaccine cannot be overstated.â€[/b][/quote]
Sounds great, right? Something to be proud
of, as a Canadian. But of course:
[quote]Plummer routinely fended off questions from within the federal bureaucracy
about the value of Ebola research, something he calls a [b]“low level constant battle.â€[/b]
“Why are you doing Ebola research? We don’t have Ebola in Canada,†Plummer says he was often asked.
He successfully made the case that the research was part of the lab’s mandate, and important.
The work continued, said Plummer, a recipient of the prestigious Gairdner prize for
his groundbreaking research on HIV in Africa, [b]“because the scientists were insistent
and because I pushed it.â€[/b][/quote]
Thanks again, Federal bureaucrats! You're a big help, as always.
One has to wonder if the usual creeps in the bureaucracy
had any racial motivation.