Canada says it will donate up to 1,000 doses of
an experimental Ebola vaccine to help battle
the disease's outbreak in West Africa.
It comes after the World Health Organization said it
was ethical to use untested drugs on Ebola patients.
However, experts say supplies of both the vaccine
and the experimental drug Zmapp are limited and it
could take months to develop more supplies.
More than 1,000 people have been killed by the
current outbreak.
Canada says between 800 and 1,000 doses of the
vaccine, which has only been tested on animals, will
be donated to the World Health Organization (WHO)
for use in West Africa.
However, it will keep a small portion of the vaccine
for research, and in case it is needed in Canada.
'Global resource'
The current outbreak has infected people in Guinea,
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
Dr Gregory Taylor, deputy head of Canada's Public
Health Agency, said he saw the vaccines as a "global
resource".
He said he had been advised that it would make
sense for health care workers to be given the vaccine,
given their increased risk of contracting the disease.
Source: m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28767695