Guinea Ebola Vaccine Clinical Trial Holds Best Hope For Useful Data Amid Shrinking Epidemic, WHO Says

Reuters: Completing Ebola vaccine trials ‘a challenge’ as epidemic wanes
“Falling Ebola cases in West Africa make completing big clinical trials on experimental vaccines a challenge, with the best hope resting on a study in Guinea, the World Health Organization said on Friday. While the waning epidemic is good news for long-suffering populations in the region, it makes it harder for health care experts and drug companies to see if vaccines can protect people against the deadly fever…” (Nebehay, 4/10).

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