Yes, I love this post!

There is, however, a vaccine developed a few decades ago which was shelved due to lack of funding. After the West Africa outbreak, they unshelved it and hey, guess what, it's pretty much %100 effective (out of something like 3000 trials)! They are using it in the Congo right now if I recall correctly. It saddens me that something that could have saved countless lives was shelved because a government decided to spend tax dollars elsewhere.

This is why we need BOINC though! If that vaccine was developed on BOINC it might have received more visibility and might never have been shelved.

The vaccine is scheduled to be approved in the US in 2018, I think.

There are still plenty of diseases to cure with BOINC so get crunching fellow Gridsters! = )