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Putin Claims Russia Has Invented World's Most Effective Ebola Drug by Mufasa27(m): 1:33pm On Jan 14, 2016
“Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised health officials across the world today when he announced that his country has invented the world’s most effective drug against Ebola

"We have good news. We have registered a medicine for the Ebola fever, which after the relevant tests, has proven to have a high effectiveness, higher than those drugs which until now have been used in the world,” Putin said, referring to the vaccine developed by Russian scientists.

But experts immediately raised doubts about Putin’s claims. A scientist who helped develop an Ebola vaccine with very high success rate in clinical trials and which is the only vaccine to have passed the highest stage of testing, called the claims nonsensical. Ira Longini, a professor of infectious diseases at Florida University’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, said that the early stage of the Russians' testing of their vaccine meant it was impossible to even discuss how effective it would be.

“This is a preliminary stage 1 study. Which is fine -- it shows their product should go forward. It shows some promise. But you can’t say anything about efficacy at this point,” Longini told ABC News. Longini said it was “shocking” that Putin had made the comments, calling them “kind of mind-boggling.”
Longini was involved in a clinical trial last year of a vaccine developed by the U.S. company Merck. The trial was conducted on behalf of the World Health Organization and in collaboration with a number of international charities, including Doctors Without Borders, as well as the Norwegian and Canadian governments. The trial was conducted on more than 4,000 people in Guinea last year during the Ebola epidemic there, and findings suggest the vaccine has an extremely high success rate, according to a study published in the respected medical journal The Lancet.
The vaccine Longini helped develop is the only Ebola vaccine to have successfully gone through Phase 3 of a clinical trial, when the drug is tested on a large group of people. It is now expected to be licensed and stockpiled by the WHO. The Russian vaccine meanwhile appeared to have only passed through Phase 1 of a clinical trial, where the drug is tested on a small group for preliminary assessment, meaning the Russian vaccine is still two stages off being eligible for legal use by international standards.

“Without the Phase 3 efficacy trial, you can’t really make any statements about the efficacy of a vaccine,” Longini said. “The best they could say is it’s just promising.”
Putin did not give details about the Russian vaccine, but in October, Russia's health ministry announced that the vaccine had shown successful results in a Phase 1 trial and had minimal side effects on the 200 volunteers it was tested on. Russian officials have provided few details about the vaccine as it has been developed over the past few month, making it difficult to evaluate it.
Longini recalled attending WHO meetings where the Russian scientists had presented their efforts to develop their vaccine.

“They were always very sketchy. They never provided any data at all. Just concepts. It was just the beginning of their study,” Longini said, adding that the Russian efforts had been so preliminary that it was impossible to have even considered including them in the WHO’s trial in Guinea.

“Their product was nowhere near ready,” Longini said. “They just finished their Phase 1 study now.”
Russian officials offered no figures today on how their vaccine compared with Longini’s or other vaccines that have had a high rate of success in the countries suffering from Ebola. Russia’s health ministry was not immediately available to comment.
Even if the Russian vaccine had passed through the first two stages, it would now impossible for them to reach the same level of testing since the Ebola outbreak is now over, Longini noted. Putin’s announcement comes just as the World Health Organization is expected to declare an end to the epidemic in Africa -- it’s now 42 days since the last registered Ebola case in Liberia -- well beyond the 21-day incubation period of the virus.

“Even if they got their vaccine through Phase 2, they wouldn’t be able to test it. You have to have Ebola transmission happening somewhere to test it," Longini said.
Asked whether he thought the Russian vaccine could now be brought into use against a future Ebola outbreak, Longini replied: “No. That requires proof of efficacy. You could never get that vaccine licensed anywhere. Well, maybe in Russia.”

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Re: Putin Claims Russia Has Invented World's Most Effective Ebola Drug by anticabal1: 1:41pm On Jan 14, 2016
So you white people stimulate Ebola outbreaks to do a final phase 3 tests on your vaccines? Hmmm...humans!

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Re: Putin Claims Russia Has Invented World's Most Effective Ebola Drug by Nobody: 1:50pm On Jan 14, 2016
Convenient that the outbreak came just in time for the testing of the vaccine.
Re: Putin Claims Russia Has Invented World's Most Effective Ebola Drug by cyprus000: 2:06pm On Jan 14, 2016
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I couldn't finish the article bcs of angerangry


Look at how that nonentity was discrediting the new vaccine,without trying to see if it actually works. just bcs it comes from a perceived adversary.

Playing politics with human life. This westerner's irritate my soul and body.

To them, nothing is right except it comes from themangry

*spit*
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Re: Putin Claims Russia Has Invented World's Most Effective Ebola Drug by Nobody: 12:19am On Jan 15, 2016
Pay no mind to that evil American scientist. He is obviously acting out a script directed by the White House or Pentagon. They will confute, discredit and disprove the Russian claim just to promote their entirely useless Zmapp.

Who doesn't know that America is behind the Ebola outbreak in Africa.

www.globalresearch.ca/a-liberian-scientist-claims-the-u-s-is-responsible-for-the-ebola-outbreak-in-west-africa/5408459

Even North-Korea recently revealed that the Ebola outbreak began as a biological weapon created by the United States.

yournewswire.com/u-s-created-the-ebola-outbreak-says-north-korea/

Do I need to remind you of how the CIA smuggled “Patrick Sawyer” into Lagos via Asky Airlines? The Liberian Government was aware that Patrick Sawyer, its citizen who brought the Ebola virus into Nigeria, had possibly contracted the virus from his late sister, yet cleared him to travel to Nigeria for a conference organised by the ECOWAS.

www.premiumtimesng.com/foreign/west-africa-foreign/166559-exclusive-how-liberian-govt-cleared-patrick-sawyer-to-travel-to-nigeria-while-under-observation-for-ebola-2.html

The crimes of the AngloZionist Empire against humanity are innumerable and can never be quantified.

That was exactly how a “Racist Population Control” exercise was carried out in Kenya by America through the UNICEF & WHO with millions of girls and women sterilised under the cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program sponsored by the Kenyan Government.

www.globalresearch.ca/mass-sterilization-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine/5431664?print=1

Do you know for how long this has been going on?

The primary agenda of these AngloZionist evil organisations [USAID, UN, UNDP, WHO UNICEF, IMF, WORLD BANK] is simply to depopulate, enslave & kill Africans.

If America says the sky is white, just know that the opposite is the answer, and if America comes to you with a gift, you better run as far as your legs can carry you because NOTHING GOOD ever comes out of America.

If only America & Israel could be obliterated off the face of the Earth, 85% of the global chaos & anarchy would end instantly.

Mother Russia is our only hope & saviour, and I say to my beloved - Vladimirovich Putin; Arise & continue blazing forth in glory!

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Re: Putin Claims Russia Has Invented World's Most Effective Ebola Drug by seagulsntrawler: 9:00pm On Jan 15, 2016
A disease similar to HIV AIDS created in the laboratory by the anglo-zionist scumbags targeted at the black race to reduce the population and to profit hugely from it.

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