The USA will launch an early-stage trial in September of an experimental vaccine against Ebola,
the deadly viral disease that has killed 729 people in the largest outbreak in history.
The National Institutes of Health has been developing an Ebola vaccine for several years that has had "encouraging results" in primates, says Anthony Fauci,director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci said he's working with the Food and Drug Administration to fast track the vaccine into a phase 1 clinical trial this fall. This type of trial is the earliest study in humans and aims to make sure that drugs are safe and show some efficacy.
Results from the study should be available by January, Fauci said. If the vaccine proves safe and effective, Fauci said he expects that it could be given to health workers in affected African countries sometime in 2015. "We are starting to discuss some deals with pharmaceutical companies to help scale it up, so on an emergency basis, it might be available in 2015 for health workers who are putting themselves at extreme risk," Fauci said.
Ebola, which has a fatality rate of up to 90%, has infected more than 1,300 people in West Africa, including a number of health workers, according to the World Health Organization.
There are currently no effective treatments or vaccines for Ebola, which causes fever and headache inearly stages but can lead to hemorrhaging, liver failure and kidney failure in later stages. But scientists have been working on four or five preventive vaccines that appear effective, said Thomas Geisbert, a professorat the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.The only positive development to come from the epidemic is that it's attracted long-needed attention from drug makers, Fauci said."We have been working on our own Ebola vaccine, but we never could get any buy-in from the companies," he said.

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