Researcher treated with experimental vaccine, expert reax

(27 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST
Hamburg, Germany - 27 March 2009
1. Wide exterior of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
2. Close-up of sign for the institute
3. Entrance of secured laboratory room, where scientist was potentially infected with the Ebola virus
4. Close-up of bio-hazard sign on door
5. Close-up of sign on door where samples are exchanged, pull out wide of door
6. Wide of corridor at the University Hospital Eppendorf, Doctor Stephan Schneider walking
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Doctor Stephan Schneider, Doctor treating affected scientist:
"There was no danger for the public right from the beginning because she was isolated. We think that there is no risk for the patient right now to fall ill. But we can be sure just after the incubation period of three weeks."
8. Scientist working at electronic microscope at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
9. Close-up of computer screen showing virus
10. Head of virological department, Professor Stephan Guenther, working in laboratory
11. SOUNDBITE (German) Professor Stephan Guenther, Head of virological department at the Bernhard Nocht Institute:
"We thought that the risk of infection outweighs the risk of maybe suffering side effects which have not occurred in experiments with monkeys so far."
12. Close-up of board with photograph of the Ebola virus
13. Microscope picture of the vaccine "VSV", given to potentially infected scientist
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Professor Stephan Guenther, Head of virological department at the Bernhard Nocht Institute:
"This is an individual case and an individual decision we made. The vaccine we have given is experimental still. Because of this no regulatory authority will give permission because it had been successfully tested on one person. This will not be the case. But what I can imagine is that companies will engage for further developments of such a vaccine because of this individual success."
15. Close-up of scientist filling test tubes
16. Scientist sitting at table with test tubes
17. Pan from centrifuge to samples
18. Close-up of samples
Philadelphia, United States - 26 March 2009
19. Set up of Doctor Heinz Feldmann, Chief of the virology laboratory at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Doctor Heinz Feldmann, Chief of the virology laboratory at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories:
"Once you get infected the chance of having a severe disease progression with potentially lethal outcome is high and so this makes this particular case a very serious situation. We all thought that this particular exposure had a very high likelihood of infection. So, some action needed to be done."
FILE: Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo - 25 May 1995
21. Medical team wearing protective clothing walking along path
22. Various of team spraying body on ground
Philadelphia, United States - 26 March 2009
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Doctor Heinz Feldmann, Chief of the virology laboratory at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories:
"The physician brought forward the recommendations to the person that was potentially exposed and the person herself made the final decision and she decided for the vaccine treatment."
FILE: Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo - 25 May 1995
24. Bodies of Ebola victim being unloaded off truck and into burial pit
25. Children covering mouths with hands and clothes watching
26. Body being unloaded from truck
27. People carrying body of ebola victim on stretcher
28. Close-up of masked medical worker, zoom in on person watching burials
STORYLINE:
Ebola hemorrhagic fever, mostly seen only in Africa, is one of the world's most feared diseases.

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