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Ebola Vaccine To Be Ready In 2015 - Glaxosmithkline by seunlayi(m): 5:34pm On Aug 09, 2014 |
Clinical trials of a preventative vaccine for the Ebola virus made by British pharma company GlaxoSmithKline may begin next month and made available by 2015 , the World Health Organization said on Saturday. “ We are targeting September for the start of clinical trials , first in the United States and certainly in African countries, since that ’s where we have the cases, ” Jean -Marie Okwo Bele , the WHO’ s head of vaccines and immunisation , told French radio. He said he was optimistic about making the vaccine commercially available . “ We think that if we start in September , we could already have results by the end of the year . “ And since this is an emergency, we can put emergency procedures in place … so that we can have a vaccine available by 2015 . ” There is currently no available cure or vaccine for Ebola , a virus that causes severe fever and, in the worst cases, unstoppable bleeding . It has claimed close to 1 , 000 lives in the latest epidemic to spread across west Africa this year. Fatality rates can approach 90 percent , although the latest outbreak has killed around 55 to 60 percent of those infected. Several vaccines are being tested , and a treatment made by San Diego - based Mapp Biopharmaceutical , ZMapp , has shown promising results on monkeys and may have been effective in treating two Americans recently infected in Africa . |
Re: Ebola Vaccine To Be Ready In 2015 - Glaxosmithkline by solar007: 5:37pm On Aug 09, 2014 |
I knew this company can handle it |
Re: Ebola Vaccine To Be Ready In 2015 - Glaxosmithkline by seunlayi(m): 7:02am On Aug 10, 2014 |
this is good news just hope it get here quicker |
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