The Commercial Benefits Of Ebola Virus Outbursts

By Alfred Obi


The Ebola virus break out in Western Africa controlled lots of the reports in 2014. The highly communicable pathogen spreads swiftly and kills over 50% of those people who become infected, leading to serious panics across multiple continents. While the vast majority of the dead are in Africa, health employees did bring the virus home to other nations and continents.

For all the doom and gloom and focus on doomsday eventualities on what the virus could do, there are essentially dome commercial benefits of Ebola virus break outs. The industrial benefits largely breakdown between non profit or government groups and for-profit biotechnology firms.

Executive or aid associations like the Red Cross or the CDC have a tendency to see increases in funding in events like these. The business benefits to them are direct and help out those on the ground suffering or aiding and containing an onset.

This containment keeps business disruption when funding is satisfactory to turn the tide of an outburst.

The longer-term commercial benefits of Ebola virus outbreaks are biotech corporations working on vaccines or drugs that might improve survival rates of those infected with Ebola. One such firm is Tekmira, which has been given blessings by the FDA to expand testing on in its experimental Ebola drug for bigger scale clinical trials.

Sarepta Therapeutics, Nanoviricides and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals are other biotech outfits that could see increased business in the future if their own Ebola drugs and medicines prove to be of price.

While the 2014 Ebola outbreak is first to have caught worldwide attention as much as it probably did, it was barely the 1st breakout. Others have happened, and more will happen in times to come. Any business that has an Ebola drug or vaccine on the market that proves effective can be certain to see a rise in business in the future.




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