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WHO prequalifies first Ebola vaccine

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By Fabrice COFFRINI

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Let's hope this gets rolled out before the affected populace reads the anti-vaxxer twaddle on social media.

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[The Ebola virus is transmitted among humans through close and direct physical contact with infected bodily fluids, the most infectious being blood, faeces and vomit.]

Vaccines might be necessary in serious outbreak places like parts of Africa, but there's a reason outbreaks occur in Africa and not elsewhere, particularly advanced nations: poor sanitation. So, I suggest that the first line of defense is the following.....

1: Clean water

2: Nutritious diet

3: High standards of sanitation and hygiene

4: Regular exercise

5: Emotional and mental well being

6: Medical care when necessary

7: Vaccines if people want them or in necessary situations. 

If we emphasized 1-6 we might not need 7.

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If we emphasized 1-6 we might not need 7.

Again, show your data to prove this, because an uninformed opinion is a very bad thing to follow when speaking about infectious diseases.

As cases in developed countries have proven the infection is as easily transmitted as in Africa, something that would contradict your idea. It is also much more feasible and cheap to produce a vaccine than provide a perfect lifestyle for whole countries, and it has the huge advantage of already having proof of being effective, so you would not have to "bet" a lot of money to see it it would work on the first place.

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