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Two Vaccines to Protect Against Ebola Could be Available Within Weeks
By SHERI FINK and RICK GLADSTONESEPT. 5, 2014
Two potential vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus ravaging West Africa could be available as soon as November and will first be given to health care workers most at risk of exposure to the disease there, the World Health Organization announced on Friday.
The organization also announced that blood from recovered Ebola patients and serums derived from that blood should be used to treat the sick, and it said treatment centers should soon begin testing other experimental therapies to combat the viral disease, which has escalated into a devastating health crisis.
?We have to change the sense there is no hope in this situation to a realistic hope,? Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, an assistant director general, told a telephone news conference at the conclusion of a two-day meeting at the organization?s Geneva headquarters aimed at expediting the prevention and cure of Ebola, which has now killed nearly 2,100 people over the past six months. Nearly all the deaths have been in three West African countries ? Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea ? but clusters of Ebola patients have recently been found to Nigeria, Africa?s most populous country.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/w...could-be-ready-by-november-who-says.html?_r=0
By SHERI FINK and RICK GLADSTONESEPT. 5, 2014
Two potential vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus ravaging West Africa could be available as soon as November and will first be given to health care workers most at risk of exposure to the disease there, the World Health Organization announced on Friday.
The organization also announced that blood from recovered Ebola patients and serums derived from that blood should be used to treat the sick, and it said treatment centers should soon begin testing other experimental therapies to combat the viral disease, which has escalated into a devastating health crisis.
?We have to change the sense there is no hope in this situation to a realistic hope,? Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, an assistant director general, told a telephone news conference at the conclusion of a two-day meeting at the organization?s Geneva headquarters aimed at expediting the prevention and cure of Ebola, which has now killed nearly 2,100 people over the past six months. Nearly all the deaths have been in three West African countries ? Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea ? but clusters of Ebola patients have recently been found to Nigeria, Africa?s most populous country.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/w...could-be-ready-by-november-who-says.html?_r=0