Saturday 16 August 2014

West Africa anxiously awaits experimental Ebola drugs

EPIDEMICS
West Africa anxiously awaits experimental Ebola drugs
Freetown (AFP) Aug 13, 2014 - Up to 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine were headed for west Africa Wednesday as the world scrambled to halt the spread of the virus which felled dozens more victims this week . Canada said it would send doses of a vaccine called VSV-EBOV which has shown promise in animal research, but never been tested in humans. Hard-hit nations were also anxiously awaiting a barely-tested ... more


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