Ebola Vaccine Trials To Begin Next Week

Publisher:
Voice of America
Publication Date:
28 August 2014
Tags:
West Africa, United States, Canada and Africa, Aid and Assistance, Health and Medicine

The National Institutes of Health says it is launching early stage trials of a vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus, which has infected or killed thousands of people across West Africa. The World Health Organization says Ebola could infect more than 20,000 people across the region by the time the outbreak is over. The epidemic has health experts and governments scrambling to prevent more people from becoming infected. Zlatica Hoke has more

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