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Ebola outbreak: Is it time to test experimental vaccines?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/25/health/ebola-outbreak-experimental-vaccines/index.html

(CNN) -- Ebola virus disease is sweeping across West Africa in the largest outbreak of the virus to date. Mortality rates are currently at 60% in a disease where up to 90% of infected people can die. But despite this lethality there remain no licensed treatments or vaccines available, nearly 40 years after the disease was first discovered.

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It is too late in this outbreak for vaccines to have enough of a preventative impact, but Ebola will emerge again in the future. If safety can be proven, the stockpiling of vaccines could improve the outcome of future outbreaks.

"Vaccines enable a preparative framework to be established rather than a reactive one," explains Heymann. "But firstly it must be shown to be safe in humans."

The ability to control future epidemics may depend on it.
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This current outbreak seems to be getting out of control pretty quickly. Does anybody think that

-- The FDA may/will be forced to remove the clinical hold on the TKM_Ebola trials sooner than later?

-- TKMR's chances of getting recurring revenues every year for the stockpiling of the Ebola vaccine just went up significantly?