Vaccine tests to begin in Ebola countries this year
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Vaccine tests to begin in Ebola countries this year.
Trials of two candidate Ebola vaccines have been fast tracked and will now begin in west Africa in December, the World Health Organization has said. A meeting of officials from the affected countries, donors, manufacturers, funding agencies, and civil society representatives met on 23 October and agreed that clinical trials could begin in December, bringing the trial start date forward a month....
متن کاملTrials of Ebola vaccine set to begin in west Africa.
Phase II trials of the two most advanced vaccines against Ebola virus disease will begin in west Africa in the next two to four weeks, the World Health Organization has announced. Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director general at WHO, told a press briefing on 9 January that safety trials had been successfully conducted on the two vaccines: cAd3-ZEBOV, a chimpanzee derived adenovirus vaccine deve...
متن کاملClinical trials of Ebola therapies to begin in December.
The first clinical trials of therapies for Ebola virus disease will begin next month in the treatment centres run byMédecins Sans Frontières in Guinea. At a press conference in Geneva the principal investigators of the trials announced that three therapies would be tested at three separate sites. They said that the trials would begin in December, and 100-200 patients at each treatment centre wo...
متن کاملWHO ready to deploy Ebola vaccine in disease outbreak.
For the first time during a live outbreak of Ebola, a vaccine could be used to stop the spread of the disease, the World Health Organization has said. In a press briefing on 18 May, WHO said that it had been in discussions with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) about deploying the vaccine to combat the outbreak of the disease declared on 12 May. As of 17 May there have be...
متن کاملRapid Ebola tests hold promise
When the Ebola virus disease outbreak was confirmed in Guinea last year, Dr Pierre Formenty and his team working on emerging and dangerous pathogens at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva called on their network of collaborating laboratories for help. “When the outbreak started it was small, so we deployed two mobile field labs in Guinea, one in Guékédou run by the European Union Mobi...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6466