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WHO: Millions of Ebola vaccine doses could be ready in 2015; 5 more vaccines testing in March

The Canadian Press , 24 Oct, 2014 11:06 AM
    LONDON - The World Health Organization says millions of doses of two experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready for use in 2015 and five more experimental vaccines will start being tested in March.
     
    Still, the agency warned it's not clear whether any of these will work against the deadly virus that has already killed at least 4,877 people this year in West Africa.
     
    Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny from the U.N. health agency told reporters that those doses could be available in 2015 if early tests proved that the two leading experimental vaccines are safe and provoke enough of an immune response to protect people from being infected with Ebola.
     
    Trials of those two most advanced vaccines —one developed by GlaxoSmithKline in co-operation with the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the other developed by the Canadian Public Health Agency and licensed to the U.S. company NewLink Genetics — have already begun in the U.S., U.K. and Mali.

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