Ebola virus: Vaccine ‘should be ready for 2015’, WHO says, as GSK plays down timing
Monday, August 11, 2014
An Ebola vaccine should be ready for public use by 2015, the United Nation’s health agency has said.
“I think it’s realistic”, Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) told AFPyesterday, with clinical trials expected to get underway soon.
There is currently no vaccine or cure for the virulent disease, which has ravaged parts of West Africa and killed more than 900 since its outbreak in March.
The epidemic, which has mostly affected Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, is said to be the largest and most brutal in its history and has been declared an international public health emergency.
Source: The Independent (link opens in a new window)
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