In this article, the author is talking about a vaccine developed in Canada to prevent the Ebola disease from spreading in developing countries such as Guinea. This vaccine was made by a Dr. Heinz Feldmann at the Public Health Agency of Canada and at the time that it was developed, containing the Ebola spread was not a concern. Because Dr. Feldmann was interested in this disease he started to create a vaccine in which later on it helped poor countries with a high spread of the disease. Due to this doctor’s break through, he was able to make a 100% effective Ebola free vaccine that is being distributed in developing countries to help the people live through this spread. When I first started to read this article, I was shocked to hear about how bad the disease was. I have heard other news on this terrible event but never knew it was really bad in that countries like Guinea had almost half their population wiped out. I agree with one of the patients in that the Canadian vaccine is a gift. The agency and the doctor who created this remedy did a wonderful job in helping others survive this hardship. In reading about the experiment conducted, I feel like the scientist who stuck herself with an Ebola infected needle was very irresponsible of her. Although the vaccine was working on the tested animals, it was nowhere near ready to be tested on humans. Even though this vaccine was the only treatment available, I feel like it was not safe to use on the scientist. It did seem to work in that she had no side effects, but this whole situation was a big risk. However, due to that irresponsibility, it also showed that the vaccine was a success. This risk did have the good as well as the bad so in seeing it as a whole picture the situation was a leap that needed to be done to indicate whether the vaccine was a success or a failure. At the end of this article, I was glad to hear that the vaccine helped many people and that Canada was able to be there to help those people.
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