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Liberia: Oxford University Begins Ebola Trials
FrontPageAfrica, 6 January 2015
A clinical trial of a possible treatment for Ebola began on the 1st of January at ELWA 3, MSF's Ebola Management Centre in Paynesville, Monrovia. Led by Oxford University from the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Trial Confirms Ebola Vaccine Candidate Safe
Guardian, 8 January 2015
TWO experimental DNA vaccines to prevent Ebola virus and the closely related Marburg virus are safe, and generated a similar immune response in healthy Ugandan adults as reported… Read more »
Oxford University Begins Ebola Trials in Liberia
Researchers are scrambling to find a cure for the deadly Ebola virus as the lastest outbreak in West Africa continues to claim the lives of thousands.
An MSF team carrying a suspected Ebola patient from a remote hamlet.
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An international team of researchers has stepped up the production of experimental antibodies that scientists say have the potential to cure people infected with the deadly Ebola ... Read more »
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Scientists are reporting progress in the search for effective treatment and cure for the Ebola virus with the discovery that antibodies from the eight Nigerians and two United ... Read more »
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Trials at Switzerland's Lausanne University Hospital, with the support of the World Health Organisation, will begin this week. Read more »
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Experts caution that the vaccine is still a long way from use in the field and that no announcement on larger-scale trials is expected. Read more »
