FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, August 28, 2014
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2014-08-28

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, August 28, 2014
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 358–359 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Our big press teleconference announcing the beginning of the Ebola
vaccine Phase 1 trial of the Chimp Adenovirus 3 vector with the Ebola GP bivalent gene
insert. Trial to start on September 2 at NIH Clinical Center. Also coinciding with
slightly later start of monovalent identical vaccine in the UK with Oxford, Wellcome
Trust and extension into Mali and the Gambia. Also, we announced our collaboration
with NewLink and Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in a Phase 1 trial (in Silver
Spring, MD with WRAIR) of the VSV – Ebola vaccine.

Much press interest today with appearances on: Fox News Radio; Hearst TV; WTOP;
MSNBC with Ronan Farrow; NBC Nightly News; The NewsHour; Cox TV; 24/7
National News Radio; CNN Anderson Cooper; Local Channel 9 News; AP TV.

DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, August 28, 2014
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 359–360 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Nature paper on deep sequencing by Pardis Sabeti from the Broad in
Boston showed phylogenetic origin of virus as a single point source. In the paper, the
woman who brought the virus from Guinea to Sierra Leone got is at a funeral where she
tended to a body; however, 12 people from that funeral got infected from 2 lineages,
probably all having gotten infected at the funeral. It seems to me that these women did
not all touch “macroscopically visible feces, blood or vomitus on the body. Someone or
more initially cleaned the body, but certainly some kissed or otherwise touched what
appeared to be a clean body and got infected. Conclusion, it is likely than microscopic
contamination with residual bodily fluids on what appears to be clean skin or surfaces
could spread the virus. Hypothetical scenario → person is infected and in early stage,
get diarrhea and wipes his anal area, contaminates his hands with microscopic fecal
material and virus, washes or not his hands, but virus remains and he then shakes
someone’s hands, serves someone food, etc. and transmission occurs                          I do
not believe at all that it is transmitted by the respiratory route; however, inadvertent

contamination of hands outside of the classical hospital setting should in my mind at least
be considered as a potential route of transmission.

Press interest continues with: Columbia (Bogota) Radio; VOA TV; NPR Weekend
Edition with Scott Simon; NPR Science Friday; CNN with Jake Tapper; Reuters TV