Hemispherx BioPharma (HEB)

[drkazmd65]

Here's the link for Sunday night's "60 Minutes" episode titled: ZMapp and the fight against Ebola.

If ZMapp works there is still the issue of manufacturing a significant quantity. And this provides a window of opportunity for companies like HEB to make some hay - IF they can get past their own production and scale-up issues. And this is an area where HEB stands a serious advantage over ZMapp.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/fOV7DDE1I8I0v1Im_cRLiQ2231HBgozg/zmapp-and-the-fight-against-ebola/


My impression (just watched it via the 60-minutes website) is that it was a very fair & evenhanded presentation of the problems that all Ebola and anti-bioterrorist treatments have run into. And all 'orphan' diseases.

There is no market for a treatment other than a Government or NGO source,.... thus research progress is slow, halting, and of a very low priority. And since Government sources of funding have been horribly slow, and everybody thinks 'it' should be done, but nobody wants to pay for 'it' - instead of getting ahead of a problem, we always have to play catch up when problems appear.

It was a good news article though. And Mr. Simon was among those few who was actually consistently a good journalist.