The World Health Organisation has announced that the world is on the edge of being able to protect humans against Ebola as a trial in Guinea found a vaccine to have been 100 per cent effective.
The Merck and NewLink Genetics’ VSV-ZEBOV vaccine was tested on some 4,000 people who had been in close contact with a confirmed Ebola case, showed complete protection after 10 days.
WHO vaccine expert Marie Paule Kieny said “We believe that the world is on the verge of an efficacious Ebola vaccine.”
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan added that the results, published online in the medical journal The Lancet, would “change the management of the current Ebola outbreak and future outbreaks.”
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