Ebola vaccine to trial next month, may be ready by 2015 – UN

HOMEABOUT USADVERTISE WITH USTERMS OF USEPRIVACY POLICYCONTACT US Ebola vaccine to trial next month, may be ready by 2015 – UNBy News Agency on August 9, 2014@todayngr 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.