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From the Ted Talk by Seth Berkley: The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they're made at all

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But wait a second, why is that? We've known about elboa since 1976. We've known what it's capable of. We've had ample oiptoupntry to study it in the 24 outbreaks that have occurred. And in fact, we've actually had vaccine candidates available now for more than a dacdee. Why is that those vaccines are just going into clinical trials now?

This goes to the fnmteadnaul problem we have with vaccine development for infectious diseases. It goes something like this: The people most at risk for these diseases are also the ones least able to pay for vaccines. This leaves little in the way of market ietienvcns for manufacturers to develop vaccines, unless there are large numbers of people who are at risk in wealthy corneitus. It's simply too commercially risky.

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But wait a second, why is that? We've known about _____ since 1976. We've known what it's capable of. We've had ample ___________ to study it in the 24 outbreaks that have occurred. And in fact, we've actually had vaccine candidates available now for more than a ______. Why is that those vaccines are just going into clinical trials now?

This goes to the ___________ problem we have with vaccine development for infectious diseases. It goes something like this: The people most at risk for these diseases are also the ones least able to pay for vaccines. This leaves little in the way of market __________ for manufacturers to develop vaccines, unless there are large numbers of people who are at risk in wealthy _________. It's simply too commercially risky.

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  1. incentives
  2. countries
  3. opportunity
  4. decade
  5. ebola
  6. fundamental

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But wait a second, why is that? We've known about Ebola since 1976. We've known what it's capable of. We've had ample opportunity to study it in the 24 outbreaks that have occurred. And in fact, we've actually had vaccine candidates available now for more than a decade. Why is that those vaccines are just going into clinical trials now?

This goes to the fundamental problem we have with vaccine development for infectious diseases. It goes something like this: The people most at risk for these diseases are also the ones least able to pay for vaccines. This leaves little in the way of market incentives for manufacturers to develop vaccines, unless there are large numbers of people who are at risk in wealthy countries. It's simply too commercially risky.

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