Ebola vaccine to be tested on 30 000 volunteers
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Ebola vaccine to be tested on 30,000 volunteers.
The first doses of a vaccine against the Ebola virus are to be shipped to Liberia, the drug company GlaxoSmithKline has announced. Some 300 vials of the vaccine, a chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 vaccine, were due to arrive in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, on Friday 23 January. Small phase I trials conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, and Mali have shown the vaccine to b...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h448