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Million Ebola vaccine doses by 2015: WHO
One million doses of an Ebola vaccine will be produced by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization has announced. It said \"several hundred thousand\" will be produced in the first half of the year.
Two vaccines by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) & the Public Health Agency of Canada are already in clinical trials
- Dozens being monitored after first Mali case
- EU boosts Ebola aid for West Africa to 1.0 bn euros
- New York City doctor tests positive for Ebola
Geneva: One million doses of an Ebola vaccine will be produced by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization has announced. It said "several hundred thousand" will be produced in the first half of the year.
And vaccines could be offered to health workers on the frontline in West Africa as soon as December 2014. However, the WHO cautioned that vaccines would not be a "magic bullet" for ending the outbreak.
There are two experimental vaccines, produced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Public Health Agency of Canada, already in clinical trials. The GSK vaccine is currently undergoing trials in Mali, the UK and the US. Research on the Canadian vaccine is also underway in the US. Results are expected in December.
A doctor who treated Ebola patients in Guinea and returned to the US last week has tested positive for the Ebola virus here, becoming New York city’s first diagnosed case. Craig Spencer, 33, is currently "hospitalized in isolation" at the Bellevue Hospital, one of eight New York State hospitals that Governor Andrew Cuomo has designated to treat Ebola patients.
Meanwhile, dozens of people are being monitored in Mali after the country confirmed its first case of Ebola. The patient is a two-year-old girl who recently arrived from Guinea, which along with Liberia and Sierra Leone has seen most of the 4,800 deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was sending more experts to Mali to help contain the outbreak. Separately, a New York doctor who recently returned from Guinea has tested positive for the disease.European Union leaders agreed to boost aid to combat the deadly Ebola virus in west Africa to one billion euros, EU president Herman Van Rompuy said. "EU will increase financial help to 1.0 billion euros (USD 1.26 billion) to fight Ebola in West Africa," Van Rompuy tweeted on the second day of an EU leaders' summit in Brussels.
