Pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to invest in vaccines and research to cure the deadly Ebola disease because it is only killing Africans, a leading UK doctor has claimed.

The President of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Prof. John Ashton, has claimed no cure for the disease has been discovered because it so far has only affected powerless minorities.

He likened the response to that of Aids, for which treatments were developed only when it started affecting Western countries.

The current Ebola outbreak – which has no vaccine, no cure and kills up to 90 per cent of victims – is currently ravaging the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Liberia.

There have been 729 deaths from 1,329 confirmed cases of Ebola in this year’s epidemic – making it the largest Ebola outbreak in history.

Writingin the Independent on Sunday <http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/theyd-find-a-cure-if-ebola-came-to-london-9644515.html>, Prof. Ashton said: ‘We must respond to this emergency as if it was in Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster.

‘We must also tackle the scandal of the unwillingness of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in research to produce treatments and vaccines, something they refuse to do because the numbers involved are, in their terms, so small and don’t justify the investment.

‘This is the moral bankruptcy of capitalism acting in the absence of an ethical and social framework.’

WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan, has also warned the virus is currently moving faster than efforts to control it.

She said, ‘This outbreak is moving faster than our efforts to control it. If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives, severe socioeconomic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries.’

Speaking at a meeting in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, she told the presidents of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast that the virus could be stopped.

But she said that cultural practices such as traditional burials were a significant cause of its spread.

Meanwhile, Emirates, the Mideast’s largest airline, said today it had halted flights to Guinea because of concerns about the spread of the Ebola virus.



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If this is true,we are in for this. We are once again at the mercy of the cartel of the pharmaceutical world.

The worst form is the mode of transmission,anybody could be a victim..something should be done fast,else it would be devastating..

Very true, but so pathetic......if it where to be our natural resources that doesn't need their intervention, they will be the first to contribute.

There will be a cure one day....

So so unfortunate and unfair
Na we dey suffer pass

chai

It's Well

This is common knowledge. No one cares when it's a bunch of west Africans dying.

Na waooo. Is not a small something oooo

A cure is underway for sure and i'm hopeful it would be concluded in 2weeks time

So because we no be whites abin

They forget said little drops of water made a big ocean


Na small small e dey happen,when one ebola victim go by mistake enter their country,and infect like 20 people......................they go sabi d cure fast fast

Blame it on the ugly, greedy , shameless and clueless African Leaders.

He likened the response to that of Aids, for which treatments were developed only when it started affecting Western countries.

Why is the Africa always at the mercy of the west
Why can't we develop our own vaccines/ cure for once

We must not wait for the west to do everything for us. We have very brilliant minds in Africa that can solve most of our probleoms.

Let's make the vaccine


And transfer the Ebola to the west
So they will buy drugs from Africa


Now we know this niggas ain't loyal
They hate Blacks



Finest boy making sense since 94'

Where all the juju men and women dey?

kai

Am just tired of everything happening around me. God should just blow the damn trumpet and end this shit of a world.

mayvia: Am just tired of everything happening around me. God should just blow the damn trumpet and end this shit of a world.

I've read this stance (and other POVs) on facebook. The thing is, it is not their job to do so. They are not responsible for us. They are not our "Daddy". African phamarceuticals should rise up and take the challenge too. If foreigners work on a cure, good. If they don't, well...

You don't say "the reason I'm not in school is because my neighbour did not pay my school fees. When his kids start going to school, I know he'll pay school fees."

It's a matter of time

this is serious oooooooooo








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@OP, this is a factual fact. Lots of movies comes to mind where scientists develop viruses to attack the human race.

For Nigeria, it's a leadership and systemic problem.

A country where doctors can go on strike for months and the president still has time to travel around instead of providing proactive measures to secure not just the airports but also the boarders .

A president that is interested in power tussle with governors, lecturers and doctors with only one aim to govern Ebola victims till 2019.

Africans need to start doing something. .. we can also set up institute in our university, give them grany to start serious research on drug development instead of relying on the west for all the solution to our problem

I knw they will lack the gusto and mettle to find a solution to this viral infection since it hasn't affected them.

Oyinbo pple b like "mi o fe gbe eru mi sori, ki tun gbe ti elomiran si owo".

Chinwem:

Why is the Africa always at the mercy of the west
Why can't we develop our own vaccines/ cure for once

Because that requires increased spending on education, health and science...and our governments do not have the cash.(or claim not to).

Plus thanks to poor power supply among other things.....we do not have the enabling environment for indigenous pharma companies to thrive to the extent that they can fund such research.

Why are y'all blaming the whites? Don't you have enough pastors here to 'pray' the Ebola away? Aint these the same whites y'all claim don't believe in your god? Why do you need them then? Since Nigeria is probably the most religious country in Africa, god will handle it .

Btw, what is Africa good/efficient at? I still wonder how almost a whole continent can be filled with third world countries.

I have a dream that I will discover a cure for it before it reaches southeast.

Chai!!! Thank God I broke up with that girl called adEBOLA some months ago ooo.....Na so person 4 just carry die!!!!!!!