NanoViricides Inc. (NNVC)

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Vaccination versus Ebolacide

The pros for Vaccination-

1. It's a word well understood in the West- and in civilized society around the world- so there is a willingness to fund it.

2. It works well in some cases- particularly when it is used against a relatively stable virus.

3. Vaccination changed the course of treatment and saved many lives when it was first introduced.

4. It is good for at least a season or more in most cases.

The Cons for vaccination (Ebola in particular)

1. Very expensive and very manpower draining to vaccinate a whole region

2. Africans are skeptical about getting needles from 'The West' as they have seen too many of their people carted off to hospitals never to return.

3. EBOLA is a moving target and a mutation prone virus. Vaccination is restricted to one strain at a time.

4. The next EBOLA outbreak could be in a different place and involve a different strain- necessitating a mass effort, and demanding money and resources

5. A huge number of doses has to be prepared- in a hurry- requiring a facility and available staff- even tho perhaps less than 1% of the population being inoculated would be likely to contract the disease.

6. Vaccinations require teams of people- setting up temporary clinics or travelling the countryside.


Pros for NNVC:

1. Only those diagnosed need to be treated, and that can happen at established clinics or hospitals/ or in traveling dispensaries.

2. Mutation resistant- all strains are likely to be treatable with one medication

3. Hundred-fold to thousand-fold reduction on demand for personnel and resources

4. Since patients are the only ones treated, number of doses needed is more manageable to produce. (NNVC can supply all needs worldwide)

5. Ebolacide is likely to have enough prophylactic effect to protect medical personnel.

Cons for NNVC

1. New paradigm (like vaccination before it became a standard)- thus lots of skeptics

2. Has yet to be proven and understood (tick ...tick...tick)

3. Hmmm running out of ideas... help?