An Ebola Vaccine Would Have Been Developed Already, but Congress...

Meet Dr. Francis Collins.

He is a man under a little bit of stress at the moment, although his rocking rendition of a Buffalo Springfield jam doesn’t show it. Collins is the director for the National Institutes of Health, and given the hullabaloo over Ebola, the man’s visibility (if not his popularity) has increased a skosh.

Dr. Collins has been poked and prodded for a comment about efforts to halt this terrible ailment, and he uncorked one — shots fired at Capitol Hill!

Basically, he would have had a vaccine already but for the thing we call Congress.

In this HuffPo article we learn that Collins blamed the lack of an Ebola vaccine on “a decade of stagnant spending”, which “has slowed down research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases.”

“NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001.