Thursday 4 December 2014

Ebola booster vaccine starts first trials in Oxford

Health workers carry the body of an Ebola virus victim in the Waterloo district of Freetown By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists at Oxford University have launched the first clinical tests of a new Ebola vaccine approach, using a booster developed by Denmark's Bavarian Nordic that may improve the effects of a shot from GlaxoSmithKline. Thirty healthy volunteers in Britain who have already received the experimental Ebola vaccine being developed by GSK and the U.S. National Institutes of Health will get the booster shot, researchers said on Thursday. Adrian Hill, who is leading the trial at Oxford University’s Jenner Institute, said it was important to explore all avenues. ...




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