Ebola vaccine trial proves 100% successful in Guinea

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Ebola vaccine trial proves 100% successful in Guinea

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/ebola-vaccine-trial-proves-100-successful-in-guinea

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A vaccine against Ebola has been shown to be 100% successful in trials conducted during the outbreak in Guinea and is likely to bring the west African epidemic to an end, experts say.


The results of the trials involving 4,000 people are remarkable because of the unprecedented speed with which the development of the vaccine and the testing were carried out.

Scientists, doctors, donors and drug companies collaborated to race the vaccine through a process that usually takes more than a decade in just 12 months.

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The rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine is sometimes known as the Canadian vaccine as it was originally developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada before being sold to Merck to conclude the testing.

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1. Example of government funding required for drug development. There is still no profit to be found

in this ebola vaccine. Thanks to the Canadian Government and the WHO for doing the hard work of development. Private industry would not develop it. Millions of lives will be saved.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Wonderful news!

I had thought that there must have been some sort of breakthrough in combating Ebola, because the Americans who were brought back from Africa survived. I know this is a vaccine and not a treatment for those already infected, but I've been expecting something like this. Just glad it happened so soon. for the scientists who worked so hard to make this vaccine.

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3. The breakthrough came from government funding years ago. It was not ramped up for clinical trials

until the crisis happened last year. There was lots of time lost. And many lives.