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Submission + - Canada's Ebola Vaccine Nets Millions for Tiny US Biotech Firm (thestar.com) 1

Submitted by Anita Hunt (lissnup)
Anita Hunt (lissnup) writes: Iowa-based NewLink Genetics has secured a US$50million deal with pharmaceutical giant Merck for the experimental Ebola vaccine developed by Canadian government scientists. NewLink bought the exclusive commercial licensing rights to Canada’s VSV-EBOV in 2010 with a milestone payment of just US$205,000. This is an interesting new twist in a story previously discussed on /. and which continues to draw media attention.
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  • Iowa-based NewLink Genetics has secured a US$50million deal with pharmaceutical giant Merck for the experimental Ebola vaccine developed by Canadian government scientists.

    and this:

    exclusive commercial licensing rights to Canada’s VSV-EBOV in 2010 with a milestone payment of just US$205,000

    shame, shame, just fucking shame. taxpayer dollars being used to line the pockets of pharmacutical companies, all the meantime profiteering off a public disaster. Insult to injury is the government gets pennies on the dollar, while helping create a monopoly.(should have made vax info public domain)

    Shame, shame, bloody shame on all of them.

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