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Canadian vaccine for Ebola virus proves highly effective in Guinea trial

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Canadian vaccine for Ebola virus proves highly effective in Guinea trial - The Globe and Mail
Great news.


The clinical trial, which began in March, 2015, marks the first time any vaccine for Ebola has passed the hurdles required for regulatory approval. Other trials that began around the same time foundered because infection rates in Western Africa were dropping too rapidly by then to provide a statistically significant result.

To overcome the dearth of new cases, the WHO team adopted a “ring vaccination” strategy. The approach was originally devised to help shut down the last remaining clusters of smallpox, leading up to its eradication in 1980. During the WHO trial, only those individuals who were close contacts of a new Ebola case, including family members and neighbours, as well as contacts of those contacts, were vaccinated. Whereas members of a randomly chosen West African cohort might only have a minute chance of contracting Ebola , those in the ring of contacts around a new case would be at much higher risk. This translates into a higher confidence level in results of the trial.

“It was a brilliant study design, given the circumstances,” said Frank Plummer, a professor at the University of Manitoba and former scientific director general of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
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TheGoverness said:
I remember when people thought Ebola was the onset of the apocalypse. LOLZ.
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I remember when Canada was just a place you went for Maple syrup, ice-fishing, and to see polar bears. ;)

EDIT: ...and superior beer. With thanks to jetboggieman for reminding me. :thumbs:
 
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Captain Adverse said:
I remember when Canada was just a place you went for Maple syrup, ice-fishing, and to see polar bears. ;)
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I remember when the mid-west was what you saw out the airplane window.
 
JANFU said:
Could have easily spun out of control.
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I disagree. As far as I know, you had to be in constant contact with someone in order to catch it.

It wasn't as easy to spread as people were making it out to be.
 
Captain Adverse said:
I remember when Canada was just a place you went for Maple syrup, ice-fishing, and to see polar bears. ;)

EDIT: ...and superior beer. With thanks to jetboggieman for reminding me. :thumbs:
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We do suffer from an immense housing shortage which is seasonal.
This occurs in the spring when our igloos melt.
Millions homeless till the winter snows arrive.
 
TheGoverness said:
I disagree. As far as I know, you had to be in constant contact with someone in order to catch it.

It wasn't as easy to spread as people were making it out to be.
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IIRC it takes time for an infected person to show symptoms. From 2 days to 21.
Cordons were lax. And WHO made a whole host of mistakes. It was a disaster that could have easily reached the EU-US
 
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