Pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to invest in vaccines
and research to cure the deadly Ebola disease because it is only killing
Africans, a leading UK doctor has claimed.
The President of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Prof. John
Ashton, has claimed no cure for the disease has been discovered because it so
far has only affected powerless minorities.
He likened the response to that of Aids, for which
treatments were developed only when it started affecting Western countries.
The current Ebola outbreak – which has no vaccine, no cure
and kills up to 90 per cent of victims – is currently ravaging the West African
countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Liberia.
There have been 729 deaths from 1,329 confirmed cases of
Ebola in this year’s epidemic – making it the largest Ebola outbreak in
history.