Do Big Drug Companies Want You to Be Sick?

Right now, GlaxoSmithKline claims that it’s hard at work creating an Ebola vaccine. The company is boasting that it has compressed a decade worth of trials into just one year’s time. Yet in the nearly four decades since Ebola was discovered, GlaxoSmithKline did not initiate a vaccine trial. So why are drug companies only now addressing Ebola when they’ve known about the virus since 1976?

Although Ebola has been killing people in Africa for decades, fighting Ebola only became profitable when the virus attacked people in already developed countries. In many cases, big drug companies wait until economic pressures spur them …read more