"In a few months the Ebola vaccine is here»
Switzerland
The Bernese Beda M. Stadler immunologist can not shake of horror scenarios of Ebola outbreak. For Stadler Ebola is less dangerous than the flu.
With the first Ebola case in Europe is also the fear of an epidemic outside Africa. In Spain, the people from the environment of the infected nurse panic of contagion have. Also the case of the diagnosed in the United States Ebola patients gave high waves, 80 people were quarantined
Confirmed Ebola infection in Spain
And it should not be the last cases: experts expect further Ebola infections in the United States and Europe. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that become infected in West Africa until early November, 21,000 people with the virus.
"Ebola has no chance in Switzerland»
The well-known immunologist Beda M. Stadler Berner can not be shaken by the horrors of a European Ebola epidemic. In an interview with news portal "Watson" he talks about the scaremongering. For immunologists Ebola is less dangerous than a flu virus: "With influenza outbreaks in Europe die more people than have died in Africa."
Due to the high mortality rate and the ugly death, the patient dies, Stadler understands but the great fear of the population from infection: vomit "sick and have diarrhea, a number of systems in the body are attacked and fail many organs. The scares. "Still Ebola in Switzerland have no chance. The cultural differences, the better hygienic conditions and good health system would prevent migration.
"Vaccine in a few months»
With individual infections as in Spain but you must expect still: "It takes just only a very small error of a single man. For example, from the one who wegputzt the vomit of the patient, or by the one who takes care of his excrement. "
For Stadler is clear: Now that the fear of the epidemic is large, it will not be long until a vaccine comes on the market. "The vaccine could prove my students in half a year," says Stadler. So far only the financial incentive for producing such substance was lacking for the pharmaceutical industry. "One would naturally rich now. Just wait, in a few months, the vaccine there. "And the WHO hope, as in the pig and bird flu, thanks to the scaremongering on more money. "Actually, should the excuse times," says immunologist.
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