Public health, folks.
Public health, folks. They had a plan in place; it didn't get executed properly. According to this it takes 18 months to manufacture the vaccine. And it's much more exciting to worry about the new diseases on the block, because we're inured to the continued threat of older diseases. I suspect it is also not helpful that central Africa is regarded as a sort of black hole of chaos, so mostly Western society tries to pretend it isn't there. Unless we're exploiting their resources.
Because we convinced ourselves we had it covered, we stopped further development on things like yellow fever vaccine. Besides, what we had worked. Problem is, it is like many things that are quiet until they explode. You don't need vaccine until you need a lot of it. We would still have been ok if it had been used properly, but you're asking for that in a region that is generally unstable.
Meanwhile, someone had tried to move from literal grow it in a chicken egg to cell culture based production (allows faster and larger volume production) but it doesn't seem to have gotten past Stage I trials?
We're getting stupid and complacent. This isn't some magical future where no one gets any infectious diseases because they were inoculated as an embryo in a "Hatchery and Conditioning Centre". Far from it, we seem to be finding new and exciting ways to re-acquire "old" diseases while collecting new ones to add on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/22/as-congos-globe-threatening-yellow-fever-pandemic-explodes-they-ask-where-is-the-vaccine/?tid=a_inl
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/22/as-congos-globe-threatening-yellow-fever-pandemic-explodes-they-ask-where-is-the-vaccine/?tid=a_inl
Because we convinced ourselves we had it covered, we stopped further development on things like yellow fever vaccine. Besides, what we had worked. Problem is, it is like many things that are quiet until they explode. You don't need vaccine until you need a lot of it. We would still have been ok if it had been used properly, but you're asking for that in a region that is generally unstable.
Meanwhile, someone had tried to move from literal grow it in a chicken egg to cell culture based production (allows faster and larger volume production) but it doesn't seem to have gotten past Stage I trials?
We're getting stupid and complacent. This isn't some magical future where no one gets any infectious diseases because they were inoculated as an embryo in a "Hatchery and Conditioning Centre". Far from it, we seem to be finding new and exciting ways to re-acquire "old" diseases while collecting new ones to add on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/22/as-congos-globe-threatening-yellow-fever-pandemic-explodes-they-ask-where-is-the-vaccine/?tid=a_inl
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/22/as-congos-globe-threatening-yellow-fever-pandemic-explodes-they-ask-where-is-the-vaccine/?tid=a_inl
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