The measles outbreak has renewed a debate over the so-called anti-vaccination movement in which fears about potential side effects of vaccines, fueled by now-debunked research suggesting a link to autism, have led a small minority of parents to refuse to allow their children to be inoculated.
Related: Ebola crisis – the Guardian briefing The rapidly dropping number of cases will make it a considerable challenge to trial vaccines against Ebola.
One example is the Advanced Market Commitment tool, where donors pledge to purchase developing country disease-focused vaccines or medicines, giving companies a commercial buyer and thus a reason to risk their R&D investment and product development.
Eggs are also valuable; besides their nutritional worth, they are used in their millions to produce our annual flu vaccines, as well as offering a means to explore embryo development and even test theories of how birds evolved from dinosaurs.
"Influenza vaccines are about marketing and not science," he says.
"Staff at the hospital where the baby was receiving his vaccines were so delighted with the name that they refused to take money from the father," El Fagr reported.
Stefan Kappe, principal investigator, Seattle BioMed, Seattle, US, @SeattleBioMed Stefan studies how malaria parasites develop in mosquitoes and in the livers of mammals, and works on developing new drugs and vaccines.
Three vaccines are expected to be tested in health workers and burial teams at high risk in west Africa in early 2015.
"Australia has been very good at stopping the spread and development of these bugs thanks to strong hygiene and infection control in hospitals, and through things like vaccines.
For example, at the G20 I forged a specific leaders' statement on Ebola urging other countries to contribute to the international effort and support the development of safe, effective and affordable vaccines and treatments.
The two main vaccines in use now are named after them, because they were the first two cases that were picked up.
