Could Ebola vaccine delay be due to an intellectual property spat?

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Could Ebola vaccine delay be due to an intellectual property spat?; Canada says it still owns patent, but it has licensed rights to private company
Topic Started: Oct 4 2014, 12:15 AM (100 Views)
Darcie	Oct 4 2014, 12:15 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	snip Quote: About 800 to 1,000 doses of the vaccine, which was developed at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, are supposed to be shipped to West Africa. The federal government has said the delay is with the World Health Organization, which is helping to determine who should get the vaccine and how to ship the doses properly. But a story published this week on ScienceInsider, a news website of the journal Science, raises the theory that a U.S.-based company that purchased a licence to the vaccine's commercialization from the federal government is "dragging its feet. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/could-ebola-vaccine-delay-be-due-to-an-intellectual-property-spat-1.2786214?cmp=rss Is this not the saddest and most disgusting situation we have ever heard off. Is this all for the love of the almighty dollar???



margaret	Oct 4 2014, 02:11 AM Post #2
Red Star Member Posts: 2,276 Group: Member Member #1,032 Joined: October 3, 2013	Yes more pettiness from whoever is holding this back. It is hard to believe that this vaccine might, just might save one life, but that is not important evidently. Money, money money who cares about the pain and suffering. Evidently not these people who control this. Is this connected to Harpers fight with the scientists?



Trotsky	Oct 4 2014, 02:30 AM Post #3
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Quote: For months, CBC News has been asking what the Canadian government received from NewLink Genetics and another company, Defyrus/LeafBio, in exchange for licensing rights for the experimental Ebola vaccine and the ZMapp drug cocktail, respectively. I wonder why the government is not releasing that information <yes, kiddies that is satirical.> Like AZT, developed by the U.S. government and given GRATIS to Burroughs-Wellcome who made $BILLIONS by overpricing the drug thus preventing virtually the entire continent of Africa from gaining access to the treatment. In the United States it was dispensed to AIDS victims only if, now hold your hats, the GOVERNMENT would buy the drug back at tens of thousands per patient. So okay Canada...what did you get for your gift to this odious company? (Not counting under-the-table bribes to officials) Edited by Trotsky, Oct 4 2014, 09:30 AM.



Dana	Oct 4 2014, 03:10 AM Post #4
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	This being the most secretive Canadian government ever, we may never know.



haili	Oct 4 2014, 05:43 AM Post #5
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,084 Group: Member Member #387 Joined: September 15, 2006	It's an experimental drug and there are regulations re. testing etc.



Delphi51	Oct 4 2014, 06:05 AM Post #6
Member title Posts: 13,967 Group: Administration Member #441 Joined: October 10, 2006	We have very strong rules for the approval of drugs but they seem rather obtuse. Thalidomide was not tested long enough or widely enough for sure. Even the throat cutting treatment for MS turned out to need more thought. But aren't things different when the patient has a very high mortality risk? On the other hand, western aid workers are already getting the blame for the whole ebola epidemic by many people in Africa. If something went wrong with the drug, even flawed delivery, we would never hear the end of it and never finish paying damages. Right on, Trotsky. There is something very wrong with governments (and poorly paid scientists) doing all the work and some company getting all the profit. Edited by Delphi51, Oct 4 2014, 06:06 AM.



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