Trials for new Ebola vaccines are now underway in Canada and the UK but the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said Tuesday volunteers are needed to participate in increasing clinical experiments as deaths and cases soar in the largest ever outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Trials for potential therapeutics to fight the Ebola Bundibugyo virus are being conducted on ferrets and monkeys, after which results would be analysed by W.H.O. as the first-in-human trials get underway.
The first of four UK vaccine candidates has entered clinical trials which are being developed by biotechnology companies Moderna and Public Health Vaccines, non-profit research organisation International AIDS Vaccine...
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