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Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Directorby Sam Stein at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/12/ebola-vaccine_n_5974148.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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BETHESDA, Md. -- As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, one of the country's top health officials says a vaccine likely would have already been discovered were it not for budget cuts.
Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has "slowed down" research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases. As a result, he said, the international community has been left playing catch-up on a potentially avoidable humanitarian catastrophe.
"NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,'" Collins told The Huffington Post on Friday. "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready."
It's not just the production of a vaccine that has been hampered by money shortfalls. Collins also said that some therapeutics to fight Ebola "were on a slower track than would've been ideal, or that would have happened if we had been on a stable research support trajectory."
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"Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director" [View all]
applegrove
Oct 2014
OP
Yup. McCain just called for an ebola czar.... shouldn't that be the surgeon general?
applegrove
Oct 2014
#2
With The Nov Election Just Weeks Away - The Dems Should Make An Issue Of Not Getting The President's
global1
Oct 2014
#16
Because neoliberals don't really want to let progressive populists take control of the party?
Tommymac
Oct 2014
#23
It particularly was opposed by the NRA and Libertarian Rand Paul. Guns Guns Guns
YOHABLO
Oct 2014
#55
Thank you, applegrove.. I just saw this on another site and was looking to see if it were here.
Cha
Oct 2014
#3
I heard a remark on NPR stating that if it was profitable, Big Pharma would have had the cure years
adirondacker
Oct 2014
#6
No guarantees. They haven't found a HIV vaccine either despite all the money and research
davidn3600
Oct 2014
#5
That is assuming that HIV research has been fully funded all along - which I doubt. -- n/t
mazzarro
Oct 2014
#17
Some day in the future the historians will tally up all the lives ruined and destroyed ...
DrBulldog
Oct 2014
#10
They'll find out that being the ruling class in a third world country - which is where they've been
dflprincess
Oct 2014
#50
I hate that they have to use Ebola as an example - been a problem for a long time.
Avalux
Oct 2014
#24
Keep hammering home the Sequester and the government shutdown. It's all on the GOP's hands.
randome
Oct 2014
#32
Disagree. This is exactly why we need to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for programs that protect
grahamhgreen
Oct 2014
#47