
@CurlyJungleJake
Founder & CEO of Centivax, computational immunoengineer
Glanville, whose company is currently working to develop a universal flu vaccine, among others, summed up the impact of these and other vaccines in America. "To truly understand the impact that vaccines have had in the last 100 years, read through the list of pathogens along the timeline until they become familiar to you, until they include things you or your family may have been infected by in your own life," he advised. "You may barely even recognize most of the pathogens in the first half of the list – because vaccines pushed them out of the human experience. That is the power of vaccines." t.co/0QbSJyTV9K
@DrNeilStone You are right - this is going to be a shitshow. It’s containable but we need to act agressively. The situation on the ground is just a mess and the international support infrastructure that we had back in the 2014 outbreak just isn’t there now.
Looks like other research groups are now updating to align with my estimates that I posted on the 17th. abcnews.com/amp/Internatio…
I had previously reported my estimate of 2.5 months when most of media was reporting a month of outbreak (and therefore coming to an incorrect conclusion about transmission rate). It looks like others are now coming to the same conclusion as my estimates : abcnews.com/amp/Internatio…
Cases and deaths tripled in last week. The Ebola outbreak will grow exponentially until containment, roughly doubling every two weeks. Containment will take some months - we could have over 10,000 cases by August, and be the largest Ebola outbreak ever by the fall. “The outbreak