Ebola vaccine does not exist because it mainly affects Africans, claims top doctor - Daily Mail Pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to invest in vaccines and research to cure the deadly Ebola disease because it is only killing Africans, a leading UK doctor has claimed. Professor John Ashton, the president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, has claimed no cure for the disease has been discovered because it so far has only affected powerless minorities. He likened the response to that of AIDS, for which treatments were developed only when it started affecting western countries. The current Ebola outbreak - which has no vaccine, no cure and kills up to 90 per cent of victims - is currently ravaging the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Liberia. There have been 729 deaths from 1,329 confirmed cases of Ebola in this year’s epidemic - making it the largest Ebola outbreak in history. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714724/Top-UK-public-health-doctor-claims-Ebola-vaccine-does-not-exist-mainly-killed-Africans-leaving-drug-firms-unwilling-invest-research.html#ixzz39Rx6B6FM
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:30:01 +0000
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