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Ebola outbreak: Britain to trial experimental vaccine on first human volunteer next week
Updated 13 Sep 2014, 10:35amSat 13 Sep 2014, 10:35am
Britain is edging closer to trialling a vaccine to fight the deadly Ebola virus, with the first human volunteer to be injected with the shot next week.
The British trial is part of a series of safety tests of potential vaccines aimed at preventing infection with the virus, which has already killed more than 2,400 people in West Africa.
The trial will ultimately involve 60 people, and will be led by Professor Adrian Hill from Oxford University.
There are no details on the gender or age of the volunteer, who is scheduled to be injected on September 17 (local time).
The vaccine has been designed to specifically target the Zaire species of Ebola, which is the one circulating in the current West Africa epidemic.
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Updated 13 Sep 2014, 10:35amSat 13 Sep 2014, 10:35am
Britain is edging closer to trialling a vaccine to fight the deadly Ebola virus, with the first human volunteer to be injected with the shot next week.
The British trial is part of a series of safety tests of potential vaccines aimed at preventing infection with the virus, which has already killed more than 2,400 people in West Africa.
The trial will ultimately involve 60 people, and will be led by Professor Adrian Hill from Oxford University.
There are no details on the gender or age of the volunteer, who is scheduled to be injected on September 17 (local time).
The vaccine has been designed to specifically target the Zaire species of Ebola, which is the one circulating in the current West Africa epidemic.
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