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Can the Priv give the iPhone 6s and Galaxy S6 Edge a run for their money?

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No be only pepsi,na mountain dew

The handset is beautiful sha...

Barely two days after BlackBerry CEO John Chen revealed that the Canadian smartphone maker might stop making smartphones if sales of their devices continue to decline, the BlackBerry Android-powered Priv smartphone is now up for pre-order on the company's website. BlackBerry calls its first Android phone the world's first secure smartphone from it that runs on Google's Android OS, as well as showing off some features of the BB Priv before it officially goes on sale manana.

The features of the Priv smartphone include a Stunning 5.4” dual-curved screen,Long lasting 3410 mAh battery,has touch and physical keyboards, Schneider-Kreuznach® certified camera , Extraordinary audio quality and also includes the exclusive DTEK™ by BlackBerry warning system app to provide you with the power of privacy.

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News making the rounds on the Internet at the moment is that Pepsi will release its own smartphones and accessories and will sell them only to its customers in China. The Pepsi phone is rumoured to be called the ''P1'' and it wouldn't be expensive. Pepsico Inc confirmed news of its intention to make smartphones in China itself in an email.

''We are pleased to share that Pepsi is working with a licensing partner to bring a line of mobile phones and accessories to market in China in the next few months." A pepsi spokeswoma says. "Available in China only, this effort is similar to recent globally licensed Pepsi products which include apparel and accessories" the spokesperson continued.

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Is that a Lexus IS luxury sedan? Yes! Why does it look different in the picture? Because it is made of cardboard. No freaking way! Yes, It is a replica of the IS sedan and everything in this car is 1,700 pieces of cardboard.And the best part is you can drive it provided your friend does not smoke near it or drives it in the rain.

Lexus calls it the Origami car and was designed by a company by the name LaserCut Works and Scales and Models Company.According to Wired Magazine, the Lexus Origami car's design was based on the CAD files of the real IS sedan.They cut the CAD files of the original car into 1,700 pieces with laser and put them together with wood glue to form the body, which they later placed on the chassis.

It took the team of five three months to fully build the cardboard Lexus IS sedan into a working model.The IS cardboard lookalike uses an electric motor to get you on the road.It is a fully functional cardboard vehicle.

Impressive?Of course it is! Anyway this is not the first time we've seen a company make something brilliant out of sheets of cardboard.Google did something similar with Cardboard, a virtual reality viewer made of cardboard.No pun intended!It allows Android smartphone owners to experience virtual reality in an affordable way.

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They should outsource some from the Apple guys

Once dominant smartphone company BlackBerry Ltd might finally bid goodbye to the smartphone business in 2016 and focus its attention on something more profitable if sales of its devices continue to plunge, according to the company's CEO John Chen, who revealed this at the Code/Mobile conference in California on Thursday.

Chen says his company would stop making handsets after launching the Android-powered BlackBerry Priv if they don't make a healthy profit and could even abandon its BlackBerry 10 operating system entirely.

The new BlackBerry Priv slider smartphone would be the Canadian phone maker's last bet to make sure it stays in the handset business. Previous phones from the company did not perform well as it expected. For example, BlackBerry only sold 8,000 Classic and Passpost phones in the first half of 2015.Worse than poor when compared to sales figures of the iPhone handsets from rival Apple Inc.If sales of the Priv smartphone falls through, it is game over for the company.

BlackBerry reportedly disclosed to +The Verge that it needs to sell as much as 5 million smartphones a year to reconsider staying in the business.It will take a lot from BlackBerry to reach that number before the whole of 2016 runs out.

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;DSmartphones are becoming less interesting. The features that companies continue to add to their handsets - however exciting - are also becoming predictable. Japanese company Sharp is aware of it, which is why it has made a phone called RoBoHoN that, hold your drumsticks, is also a robot.

The RoBoHoN comes with a camera, a projector, a mic and an LCD screen which is incorporated on its back. It also comes with a facial and voice recognition system. Unlike toy robots that can only move back and forth, RoBoHoN offers many more capabilities.

That's one part of it, the visible part. The RoBoHoN can also make phone calls. In fact, it would let you know when there's a phone call. "Hey, there's a call for you," it notified in a demonstration. When you want to take the phone call, RoBoHoN quickly stretches it out to make it convenient to hold it.

It understands voice commands. You can ask it to place a phone call to someone and it would do that. It runs Android (what appears to be the Lollipop version, as seen in the embedded video below) and supports 3G and 4G LTE connectivity options.

The other part of the RoBoHoN is decidedly more exciting. It can walk, dance, and sit around like a pet and make its eyelids emit light. It can also take pictures for you, which you can browse on its LCD display.

The company says that it would launch RoBoHoN next year, and share more information about the gadget in the coming months.

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DO YOU use digital technology? Many would answer yes and for good reason electronics devices play a prominent and vital role in employment, social life and entertainment. However, Many people seem overly attached to some uses of technology, for example, 20-year-old Nichole says: ''I hate to say it, but my phone and I are best friends.I make sure it is close by at all times.I go crazy if I'm in an area with no cell coverage, and after half an hour, I can't wait to be able to check my messages again.It is a little ridiculous!''

Some people even check their devices for messages and updates all through the night.They may experience withdrawal syndrome when they are separated from their digital companions.Some researchers describe this type of behaviour as an addiction---whether to digital technology in general or more specifically to the Internet or a partner device, such as a smartphone.Others hesitate to use the term ''addiction'' and prefers to describe such behaviour as problematic, compulsive or obsessive.

Regardless of what it is called,unwise use of digital technology can be a problem. In some places, it has created a barrier between family members. For example, a 20-year-old girl laments:''My father doesn't know about anything going on in my life anymore.He sits in the living room and writes emails while he is talking to me.He can't put his phone down.My dad probably cares about me, but something just doesn't seem that he does.

Digital Detox

To help deal with abuse of technology,nations such as China,South Korea,the United Kingdom and the United States have established ''digital detox'' centres where a person is denied access to the Internet and digital devices for several days. For example, consider Brett, a young adult who says that at one point he was playing an online game for up to 16 hours a day.''Whenever I went online , it really was like getting high on a drug,'' he says. By the time Brett checked himself into a Digital Detox centre, he was unemployed, had neglected his hygiene and had lost his friends. How can you prevent such a sad outcome? Find out in our next post on this topic.

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My parents are billionaires. My father is an investment banker. Most of his money comes from being the son of a real estate tycoon. My mother was born into an old-money family. I do not know for sure how much money they have since 1) I've never once asked and 2) Even if I did ask, I don't think they'd discuss that with me. But you don't need to know a number in order to know that you have access to more money than an average person will make in their lifetime.

What's it like to be a child with billionaire parents? Well, I certainly wanted for nothing. From the moment I was born, I was able to have nearly anything that I even thought of desiring. Whatever I wanted, I got. It was as simple as that. Want to get a car? Sure, I'll call the guy. I had my own American Express Centurion Credit Card (or as some people call it, a Black card). I could buy nearly anything I wanted without worrying or even glancing at the price tag. Looking back as an adult, it's actually kind of repulsive.

Growing up was kind of like a vacation. We traveled constantly. We flew in a private plane and would always stay in the best hotel suites. We had (and still have) 15 homes around the world, including a private island.

We have a full staff, including gardeners, maids, cooks, butlers, security, etc. and I do not remember a time when we did not. For the main part of my childhood, I was “raised” by these people. Like many other children of wealthy parents, I remember my childhood to be slightly lonely. Don't get me wrong, I love my parents. I'm not one of those rich kids who has a strained relationship with their parents. But my parents weren't around much. My father wouldn’t be home 3 weeks out of 4, and my mother would be going to her events. Minimal parenting with an unlimited amount of money at such a young age? There are only so many ways that could go.

Being the offspring of two billionaires is terrifying. It's utterly frightening. It’s not something people talk a lot about. All people seem to discuss when talking about being a billionaire are the privileges and the lifestyle and the excess and the fabulousness...but no one talks about the scary part of being a member of a rich family. But when you're in this position, it's real. It's really, really scary and it's always in the back of your mind. You’re always afraid of being kidnapped or killed or tortured or whatnot. It’s not paranoia, it’s the truth. It’s possible and it could happen at any time. I’ve always had a security team. Whenever I go out of the house, my security group follows. Public outings where there will be a lot of people are planned. I do not remember a time when I've not had a security entourage. In a way, I don't think I'll ever experience something as simple as going to the grocery store alone or enjoying a concert in the crowd like everybody else. Our homes are decked with state-of-the-art security devices. Seeing those complex security devices...in your house, in the room where you sleep, in the bathroom where you shower, reminds you that you live in danger. It's this constant reminder that you're DIFFERENT. It’s something that you have to live with, the idea that there might be people out there who want to hurt you because of how much money your parents have.

I was always sent to the best schools. Even if I didn't have the grades to get into a certain school, I'd get in, due to family connections or networking from my parents. That's something that I didn't understand when I was little. I'm not as smart as these kids, so why am I in the "smart" school? Well, it turns out that you don't actually belong here. You're not smart enough, so Mom and Dad used their connections! You took a spot from a kid who was smart enough and actually deserved it. Your parents have connections, otherwise you wouldn't be here! That's what it was like in school. All this money, all this stuff, it doesn't belong to you. It belongs to your parents. It was bought with THEIR money, and you're simply their child.

Being a child born into such extravagant wealth definitely puts a lot of pressure on succeeding. You are reminded constantly to NOT RUIN YOUR FAMILY'S REPUTATION. Also, anything that you succeed at goes back to your family, not you. You are constantly reminded how successful and great your parents are.Your parents did this! Your grandparents accomplished this! Now, what are YOU going to do? Is it going to be as great as what they did? You are raised with the highest of expectations.

Today, as a young adult, I'd like to think I'm out of that crazy tunnel. I make my own money, and I support myself financially. I suppose by definition, I'm still a billionaire. As for my parents, I know they'd always help me out financially if I were to ask them, and I am grateful for that.

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Will people buy it? That's the question.

South Korean electronics giant LG has a new smartphone lineup, the V series, and the first handset to lead the new V series has two displays as well as two front cameras.The new LG smartphone 2015 is the V10.It was unveiled early this morning in New York and packs some premium materials.The handset will be available in its home country Korea later this month and will cost $678 apiece.

LG put in a lot of specs and features to make the V10 handset more appealing and give its competition a run for their money. For instance the handset is built on stainless steel and a durable silicone skin so it probably won't scratch when you accidentally drop it on cement.

There's a 2.1-inch second screen that sits just above the main 5.7-inch QHD IPS Quantum screen that gives you weather,time,date and battery report.It also notifies you without taking your attention away from what you are doing, say watching a video or gaming, when a call or text comes in.

Wide angle images usually require a large, heavy lens which can distort the corners of photographs. The LG V10 features 5MP Dual Front Cameras with two separate lenses to capture standard 80 degree selfies or perfect wide angle selfies of 120 degrees, without the need to pan the smartphone which increases the likelihood of camera shake.

For the wide angle shot, the V10 employs a sophisticated software algorithm to combine images from the two separate lenses which are just far enough apart to provide two different points of view. The ability to take group selfies without a selfie-stick has never been easier. Multi-view Recording can capture different angles utilizing all three cameras on the V10. Select and insert the version that looks best in your masterpiece. -

See Specs of the LG V10 handset
Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 808 Processor Display: Main) 5.7-inch QHD IPS Quantum Display (2560 x 1440 / 513ppi) Secondary) 2.1-inch IPS Quantum Display (160 x 1040 / 513ppi) Memory: 4GB LPDDR3 RAM / 64GB eMMC ROM / microSD (up to 2TB)
Camera: Rear) 16MP with F1.8 Aperture / OIS 2.0 Front) 5MP Dual Lens (80o Standard Angle / 120o Wide Angle)
Battery: 3,000mAh (removable)
OS: Android 5.1.1 Lollipop
Size: 159.6 x 79.3 x 8.6mm
Weight: 192g
Network: LTE-A Cat. 6
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 a, b, g, n, ac / Bluetooth 4.1 / NFC / USB 2.0
Colors: Space Black / Luxe White / Modern Beige / Ocean Blue / Opal Blue -

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Brandnew2:
Maybe you should watch a movie titled THE INTERN.

There are lots of things I know that you didn't mention.

Used cars are also known as second-hand cars.

I don't think so...only those who work for the company knows what's going on inside.

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An average google fan know these things.

You have already chosen a used car for buying, aren’t you? So you should make sure that you will buy a normal car. We have selected 10 things you need to check before the bargain.

1. Look carefully at the car interior and exterior, everything must be perfect. Any defect can lower the initial price. If you can make up your mind to small holes on the seats, ask a seller for rebates. You should turn attention to paint works on the car body. Paint coat has to be homogeneous.

2. Try a work of all systems inside the car. You should check an air-conditioner, a seat heater system, a headlight system and so on. - See more at:

3. Check the car body. You should crawl under the car and look at its body inside. Check strength of the car body; look for rust,damages and so on.

4. Check cars tires. They haven’t to be old an erased. The tread pattern should be well-defined. Look for tap-sheets. If they are absent it’s great. Sometimes sellers give extra tires for another season. These tires should be checked too.

5. Check car trunk. It should be without any defects.

6. Check availability of a spare extra wheel. Look for any damages on it. It must be perfect.

7. Check a good condition of the car frame. If you can’t do it by yourselves, ask a professional to help you.

8. Have a look under the hood. It’s better to do this checking with a specialist.

9. If the car has a computer. Check to see if it is working when you start the car.

10. Try the car running. Listen to every sound. Feel the wheels and control capabilities. Check brakes.

You must be attentive when you buy a used car. Ask any car expert to help you to check the car. And Remember that it’s so easy to fall into swindlers’ hands. That’s why choose tried and true car markets

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I joined Google 2.5 weeks back. So may be its too early to answer this question. But still want to share my experience. As a computer science student, Google was always my dream company. So working in Google HQ is like living in the dream for me as of now. Here you can work with the best brains around the world, can use latest technology and tools. Even being a noogler (new Googler) you can be part of cool future projects that are yet to release.

Work environment is very friendly and all teammates and managers are helpful and supporting. Though it may take months to fully understand Google architecture, but you can access the codebase from inside and feel it how the features you always use are actually implemented. Company culture is to encourage and support new ideas (eg: google 20% time project).

Working in headquarter gives you the opportunity to see and listen to big personalities like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai etc in person quite often. Joining events of Google in person is of course very exciting.

And it is a free world. Free food, free laundry, free gadgets, free massage, free gbus with WiFi. Have to mention the Google food explicitly. Breakfast to dinner, various cuisines are served in different cafes and its so yummy that almost every Googler really gains at least 15 pound after joining. (Famous 15 pound joke ). Candies, chips etc are stuffed in each and every building. There are plenty gyms, playgrounds, volley ball court, different indoor games all around the campus. There is even a Indian restaurant in campus (that;s right, not cafe, a free awesome restaurant) which being an Indian is my favorite so far.

Only problem with working in Google is that there are so many excellent people around, often you can feel very small. But actually I think it's a great opportunity to learn from these people. Overall for me its very challenging and that's the charm

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As you may know, China is Apple's largest market after the US so you can imagine the popularity of the handsets. Everyone wants to be seen with the newest handsets. But not everyone can afford them. So the sperm banks figured out it would be great to give them the money they need to buy the rose gold iPhone 6S provided they regularly donate their sperm.

They are offering to pay anyone who is a college graduate, has a Chinese identity card, aged 22 and 45 with no trace of genetic disease, has high sperm count and standing at 5ft 4-inches tall a whooping $940 or 6,000 yuan for a 17mil sample.There's also a caveat: You have a minimum of 48 days to deposit sperms within a 6 month period. Of course this is noting compared to those two Chinese men who attempted selling their kidneys just to pay for the new iPhone 6s. What about the young girl that offered her virginity for the latest iPhone 6s.

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The Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible cost as much as $300,000 or N59.7 million. I hope you are not surprise it cost that much. We are talking about a car from Rolls-Royce.Some features and specs of the Dawn convertible include a Twin-turbo 6.6 litre V-12 engine that produces 563 hp, a fabric roof and you can control the Dawn convertible with your voice.

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Google never ceases to amaze us each and everyday; always coming up with a lot of surprises.When you thought they had run out of idea, they do something entirely awesome and different.However one will be surprised to know how small Google actually started off - See more at:

1 Google's headquarter is called "Googleplex" which means the number equivalent to ten raised to the power of a googol.

2 In Googleplex, TGIF (Thank God Its Friday) used to happen on each Friday as weekly all-hands where Larry, Sergey and other Googlers discuss about Google. As Friday afternoon at Mountain view was too late for other offices of google worldwide, now it happens on each Thursday and its called TGIAF. (Thank God Its Almost Friday).

3 The first Google doodle was created by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in August 1998,as a way to keep its users updated on where the Google crew would be in the next few days. It was actually a doodle of the festival Burning Man which was held in the Nevada desert.

4 In the year 2013, Google raked in a whooping $55 billion.You know what? 91 percent of that revenue came from advertising alone.

5 Are you one of those who do not or find it hard to pronounce large numbers like 92567816603? Google will help you out if you type ''= English after the number.

6 Google's search index is more than 100 million gigabytes in size. It would take 100,000 1TB hard drives to accommodate that amount of data.

7 Google name was formerly BackRub in 1996. But was later changed to Google. Originating from the misspelling of the word ''Googol.''

8 Google has amazing benefits for its employees even after they die. For example, a US-based google employee or Googler who kicked the bucket while still in the employ of Google, their surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50 percent of their salary for the next decade. I heard all US Googlers qualify for this benefit.

9 If you spell the word Google backwards, it becomes elgooG. The interesting thing is you can also use it for all your searches on http://www.elgoog.im . But your search terms must also be written in reverse order to get the right results.

10 The first Google storage was made of LEGO--those building blocks kids play with-- and contained 10 4GB hard drives. Larry and Sergey didn't have enough cash to build something rugged and made do with what they had. So guys, you have no excuse to make your dreams didn't became a reality even if you haven't gotten enough resources.

11 Google recently became a part of a larger company called Alphabet Inc. Google tried to to get the domain name Alphabet but found out it already belonged to German carmaker BMW. So Google figured out a new domain name for its new parent company, instead http://abc.xyz/

12 The “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button Costs Google $110 Million a Year! Ever notice that ubiquitous “I’m feeling lucky” button on the Google homepage that you've probably never used. What if I told you that this small little piece of grey rectangle, costs Google over 110 million dollars a year!That’s right! What this button effectively does, is that it takes the user directly to the top search result for that query thereby bypassing all the other top 9 results and also the ads that get displayed alongside them.

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Thank you guys! Creating quality content is the only way to keep the visitors coming back. Quality not quantity is king.I look forward to the day when we will hit 1,000,000 visitors.

Thanks once again, guys!

We have almost come to the end of August and as you know, it is that time where I share with you guys Wearobo's monthly traffic stat, from Google analytics. In our last month's report, Wearobo recorded 118,000 unique visitors and the number of page views blew us away. This month, we went even further.With the hand that you lend us,we climbed to 153,000 uniques. Yes! we did it again. That is to say, we brought in another 35,000 affluent people to Wearobo.com
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A vaccine against Ebola has been shown to be 100% successful in trials conducted during the outbreak in Guinea and is likely to bring the west African epidemic to an end, experts say.

The results of the trials involving 4,000 people are remarkable because of the unprecedented speed with which the development of the vaccine and the testing were carried out.


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Scientists, doctors, donors and drug companies collaborated to race the vaccine through a process that usually takes more than a decade in just 12 months.

“Having seen the devastating effects of Ebola on communities and even whole countries with my own eyes, I am very encouraged by today’s news,” said Børge Brende, the foreign minister of Norway, which helped fund the trial.

“This new vaccine, if the results hold up, may be the silver bullet against Ebola, helping to bring the current outbreak to zero and to control future outbreaks of this kind. I would like to thank all partners who have contributed to achieve this sensational result, due to an extraordinary and rapid collaborative effort,” he said on Friday.

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There have been a total of 27,748 cases of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone up to 26 July, with 11,279 reported deaths, although the outcome of many cases is unknown and the toll will be significantly higher. In the week ending 26 July, there were just four new cases in Guinea and three in Sierra Leone.

Because of the diminishing number of Ebola cases in west Africa and the shifting nature of the epidemic, with many sudden small outbreaks occurring across the region, researchers hit on a novel design for the trial.

The “gold standard” approach would be to take a population at risk of Ebola and vaccinate half of them while giving the other half a placebo. Instead, the researchers used a “ring” design, similar to that which helped prove the smallpox vaccine worked in the 1970s.


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When Ebola flared up in a village, researchers vaccinated all the contacts of the sick person who were willing – the family, friends and neighbours – and their immediate contacts. Children, adolescents and pregnant women were excluded because of an absence of safety data for them. In practice about 50% of people in these clusters were vaccinated.

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To test how well the vaccine protected people, the cluster outbreaks were randomly assigned either to receive the vaccine immediately or three weeks after Ebola was confirmed. Among the 2,014 people vaccinated immediately, there were no cases of Ebola from 10 days after vaccination - allowing time for immunity to develop - according to the results published online in the Lancet medical journal (pdf). In the clusters with delayed vaccination, there were 16 cases out of 2,380.

In another precedent-breaker, the trial was sponsored by the World Health Organisation because “nobody wanted to step into this role so we took the risk”, said assistant director-general, Dr Marie-Paule Kieny.

Funding came from the Wellcome Trust and other partners including the governments of Norway and Canada. Others involved included Médecins sans Frontières, whose volunteer doctors were on the frontline, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. About 90% of the trial staff were from Guinea, a country where no clinical research had been carried out before. The vaccine is made by Merck.

Kieny said: “We believe that the world is on the verge of an efficacious Ebola vaccine.”

The trial will continue, but without randomisation, which means that in Guinea, where there have been 3,786 cases and 2,520 confirmed deaths, every contact of a person who develops Ebola – and their contacts – will be offered it. Work in Gabon has now established that the vaccine is safe for children and adolescents, so they will be offered it too.

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In terms of vaccines which are usually trialled in hundreds of thousands of people, Kierny said the numbers were small but highly promising. It is likely when larger numbers are collected that efficacy will be between 75% and 100%.

The future of two other potential Ebola vaccines, one from GlaxoSmithKline and the other from Johnson and Johnson, is now in question, because there are too few cases of Ebola for their trials to be completed.

The authors of the research said the ring design made it “logistically feasible” to conduct trials even in poor countries in the middle of a fading epidemic and it was a promising strategy for the future.

“This trial dared to use a highly innovative and pragmatic design, which allowed the team in Guinea to assess this vaccine in the middle of an epidemic,” said Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust and one of the world’s leading experts on infectious disease. “It is a remarkable result which shows the power of equitable international partnerships and flexibility.

“Our hope is that this vaccine will now help bring this epidemic to an end and be available for the inevitable future Ebola epidemics. This partnership also shows that such critical work is possible in the midst of a terrible epidemic. It should change how the world responds to such emerging infectious disease threats.”


John-Arne Røttingen, the head of infectious disease control at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and chair of the trial’s steering group, said it had been a race against time in the most challenging circumstances.

“We are really pleased with the interim results,” he said. “It is really important to add the vaccine to the traditional hygiene measures we have used in the response so far. I believe this will be an important contribution to getting down to zero cases.”

Médecins sans Frontières said it was keen for the vaccine to be used in Sierra Leone and Liberia, where there were still cases.

Bertrand Draguez, MSF’s medical director, said: “In parallel with the ring vaccination we are also conducting a trial of the same vaccine on frontline workers. These people have worked tirelessly and put their lives at risk every day to take care of sick people. If the vaccine is effective, then we are already protecting them from the virus.

“With such high efficacy, all affected countries should immediately start and multiply ring vaccinations to break chains of transmission and vaccinate all frontline workers to protect them.”

Margaret Chan, the director general of of the WHO, said the vaccine trial’s success was a promising development. “The credit goes to the Guinean government, the people living in the communities and our partners in this project.”

The British government contributed £1m of the trial funding and has said it will increase that amount to help allow the testing to continue.

“Ebola has claimed thousands of lives and devastated communities across west Africa,” the international development secretary, Justine Greening, said. “The results of these UK-backed vaccine trials are hugely promising and represent a significant breakthrough in our battle against this deadly disease. The vaccine offers hope for a future where we never have to face an Ebola epidemic like this again.”

Trial data will now go to regulatory agencies in the hope of getting a licence for the vaccine which will allow it to be stockpiled for future Ebola epidemics. It is likely to be used only for people at risk in outbreaks and not given to whole populations.

The rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine is sometimes known as the Canadian vaccine as it was originally developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada before being sold to Merck to bring conclude the testing.

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