Ebola vaccine won't be ready until 2015, says WHO
Dr Margaret Chan addresses the media after a two-day meeting of its emergency committee on Ebola, in Geneva
Clinical trials will be rushed through trial process to help staunch the spread of the deadly virus
Clinical trials of vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus should soon get underway and will likely be ready for widespread use by early next year, the World Health Organisation said Saturday.
"I think it's realistic," Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director-general of the UN health agency, told AFP.
“Since this is an emergency, we can put emergency procedures in place... so that we can have a vaccine available by 2015,” Jean-Marie Okwo Bele, the head of immunisation and vaccines at the WHO, told French radio broadcaster RFI.
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.
The Telegraph
Therefore, Ebola, which has swept through West Africa killing nearly 1,000, could have a vaccine by 2015
Let us keep our fingers across and be expectant.
Now, my question is what will be the hope of those victims that are dying everyday???
in all this; God's protection is the best!
BE PREPARED!!!
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