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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, The University of Texas Medical Branch has made |
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important strides toward conquering the Ebola virus by developing a |
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promising vaccine; and |
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WHEREAS, Scheduled for human trials in the summer of 2015, |
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the vaccine is designed to treat the strain of Ebola that has killed |
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more than 10,000 people in West Africa since December 2013; it is a |
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modified version of a vaccine developed in the previous decade, and |
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it is one of only two being studied in humans; and |
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WHEREAS, The medical branch developed the fast-acting, |
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single-dose vaccine in an interdisciplinary partnership with |
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Profectus BioSciences; researchers conducted nonhuman primate |
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testing in the Galveston National Laboratory, the only fully |
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operational Biosafety Level 4 laboratory on an academic campus in |
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the United States; in April 2015, the results were published in the |
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scientific journal Nature; the research is supported by the |
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National Institutes of Health and the UTMB Department of |
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Microbiology and Immunology; and |
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WHEREAS, The findings at UTMB may pave the way for the |
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manufacture of a safer, single-dose, high-efficiency vaccine to |
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combat Ebola outbreaks, potentially saving an untold number of |
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lives; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas |
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Legislature hereby honor The University of Texas Medical Branch for |
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its development of a promising Ebola vaccine and extend to all those |
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associated with this research sincere best wishes for continued |
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success in their important work; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for UTMB as an expression of high regard by the Texas House |
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of Representatives. |
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Faircloth |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 2464 was adopted by the House on May |
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21, 2015, by a non-record vote. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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