Sunday, October 12, 2014

Science, not prayer, will solve the ebola problem

Ebola vaccine human trials begin


By Jonathan LaPook
CBS News
October 9, 2014, 7:58 PM
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There's now a vaccine against Ebola being tested to see if it's safe.
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The vaccine is produced by Glaxo Smith Kline and is being tested on healthy volunteers. Nurse Ruth Atkins got the first dose.
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In addition to the 40 subjects in Mali, 20 are being tested at the National Institutes of Health here in the U.S. and 60 in the U.K. It's the first phase of a multi-step process before approval.
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The vaccine has been effective in primates, but this is the first human trial.
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"This is happening extraordinarily rapidly," said Adrian Hill, chief researcher in the U.K. "We've done over 100 clinical trials at this center, typically it would take us about six months to get a vaccine trial started, we've done this in just under four weeks. Everybody revealing the protocol, we've done this in record time."
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