{"id":7951,"date":"2014-10-13T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2014-10-13T09:38:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:38:56","slug":"disease-vector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7951","title":{"rendered":"Disease Vector"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/10\/12\/ebola-vaccine_n_5974148.html\">Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has &#8220;slowed down&#8221; research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases. As a result, he said, the international community has been left playing catch-up on a potentially avoidable humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It&#8217;s not like we suddenly woke up and thought, &#8216;Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,'&#8221; Collins told The Huffington Post on Friday. &#8220;Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would&#8217;ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n-Grover Norquist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has &#8220;slowed down&#8221; research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases. As a result, he said, the international community has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65],"tags":[118,21,19],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-republican-america","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}