no financial incentive to develop ebola vaccine...the fact that people are dying isn't enough

[MineralMan]

13. And we have one Ebola death in the US and a few thousand in West Africa.

It's good to have some scale here. Vaccines are difficult to create, difficult to test, and difficult to produce in quantities that would be sufficient. Since we haven't succeeded with Hep C and HIV, what makes people think an Ebola vaccine is some sort of easy job?

Personally, I find it upsetting when people make assumptions about why there is no vaccine for certain diseases. While they blame a lack of money as the reason, they appear to be forgetting that anyone who comes up with a viable HIV vaccine or one for Hepatitis C will find a marketplace that is eager to buy those. That seems obvious. And yet, no vaccine that works is available, despite major efforts to develop vaccines for both of those viruses.

Ebola, too. People have been trying to find a working vaccine for Ebola for a long time. Frankly the team that develops a vaccine for any of the three viruses I mentioned will end up with a Nobel Prize in medicine and the company that makes any of those vaccines will make a pantload of money.

No research? That's nonsense. The research continues and has continued for quite a long time on all of those and many other deadly or epidemic viral diseases.

Some use incorrect information to blame one reason or another for the failure to develop these life-saving vaccines. If those people would actually go and look to see how many people are working on such vaccines, they wouldn't speak so quickly.