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Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015 | Environment News Service

October 27, 2014

Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015 | Environment News Service.

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 26, 2014 (ENS) – At a high-level emergency meeting convened by the World Health Organization on Thursday, pharmaceutical companies developing Ebola vaccines committed to accelerate production capacity for millions of doses to be available in the first quarter of 2015.

Regulatory authorities in countries where the vaccines are manufactured and in Africa committed to supporting this goal by working under extremely short deadlines.

To help control the ongoing Ebola epidemic that has claimed nearly 5,000 lives, most in the West African countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – the WHO is coordinating the fast track testing and deployment of several vaccines.

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The WHO convened the emergency meeting at the request of several governments and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry. The 90 participants discussed access to near-term vaccines, the financing of vaccine and immunization campaigns and the design, production capacity, regulation and indemnity of clinical trials in at least seven countries.

Trials of vaccines have already begun in the United States, the United Kingdom and Mali, and are beginning in Gabon, Germany, Kenya and Switzerland to determine safety, dosing and efficacy.

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Canada to ship experimental Ebola vaccine to WHO in Geneva | Canada | Reuters

October 20, 2014

Canada to ship experimental Ebola vaccine to WHO in Geneva | Canada | Reuters.

TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian government will ship 800 vials of its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization in Geneva beginning on Monday, the Public Health Agency of Canada said on Saturday.

The WHO, in consultation with health authorities in the countries most affected by the outbreak of the disease, will decide on how the vaccine will be distributed and used, the agency said in a statement.

The vaccine is undergoing clinical trials on humans at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States after showing promising results in animal testing, it said.

The Canadian government said in August it would donate between 800 and 1,000 doses of its VSV-EBOV vaccine to the WHO for use in Africa, but the vaccine remained in a government lab as Canadian and WHO officials grappled with logistical and ethical issues.

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