Another dot to connect is that the US Gunverment holds a patent on Ebola: http://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502They sure do:
PATENT
Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof
US 20120251502 A1
ABSTRACT
Compositions and methods including and related to the Ebola Bundibugyo virus (EboBun) are provided. Compositions are provided that are operable as immunogens to elicit and immune response or protection from EboBun challenge in a subject such as a primate. Inventive methods are directed to detection and treatment of EboBun infection.
| Publication number | US20120251502 A1 |
| Publication type | Application |
| Application number | US 13/125,890 |
| PCT number | PCT/US2009/062079 |
| Publication date | Oct 4, 2012 |
| Filing date | Oct 26, 2009 |
| Priority date | Oct 24, 2008 |
| Also published as | CA2741523A1, 4 More » |
| Inventors | Jonathan S. Towner, 4 More » |
| Original Assignee | The Government of the US as Represented by the Secretary of the Dept. of health |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan |
| Patent Citations (2), Non-Patent Citations (8), Classifications (39),Legal Events (1) | |
| External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet | |
The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”; Atlanta, Ga., United States of America) on Nov. 26, 2007 and accorded an accession number 200706291. This deposit was not made to an International Depository Authority (IDA) as established under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, and is a non-Budapest treaty deposit. The deposited organism is not acceptable by American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, Va., an International Depository Authority (IDA) as established under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure. Samples of the stated Deposit Accession No. 200706291 will be made available to approved facilities for thirty years from the date of deposit, and for the lifetime of the patent issuing from, or claiming priority to this application.More on Ebola: THE PAPER TRAIL: The US Government Involvement in Developing Ebola as a BioWeapon
But patents are property... right?
ReplyDeleteINSIDIOUS EVIL Evil evil evil
ReplyDeleteLaurie Garrett is senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Pulitzer Prize winning science writer.
ReplyDeleteAttention, World: You just don't get it.
You think there are magic bullets in some rich country's freezers that will instantly stop the relentless spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa? You think airport security guards in Los Angeles can look a traveler in the eyes and see infection, blocking that jet passenger's entry into La-la-land? You believe novelist Dan Brown's utterly absurd description of a World Health Organization that has a private C5-A military transport jet and disease SWAT team that can swoop into outbreaks, saving the world from contagion?
The above comment comes from a piece in Foreign Policy by a woman who wrote about the 1995 outbreak.
ReplyDeleteNow that Lagos in Nigeria (22M people!) has seen many new cases, and allegedly the mattresses from a quarantine were stolen by families, filled with virus load, this just got exponentially worse. Like, wow...I was certain it was going to be the banks that laid us low.