{"id":699,"date":"2014-10-27T07:17:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=699"},"modified":"2014-10-27T07:17:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:17:05","slug":"millions-of-ebola-vaccine-doses-promised-by-early-2015-environment-news-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015 | Environment News Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ens-newswire.com\/2014\/10\/26\/millions-of-ebola-vaccine-doses-promised-by-early-2015\/\">Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015 | Environment News Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\"><strong style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: initial none initial;\">GENEVA, Switzerland<\/strong>, October 26, 2014 (ENS) \u2013 At a high-level emergency meeting convened by\u00a0the 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">Regulatory authorities in countries where the vaccines are manufactured and in Africa committed to supporting this goal by working under extremely short deadlines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">To help control the ongoing Ebola epidemic that has claimed nearly 5,000 lives, most in the West African countries \u2013 Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone \u2013 the WHO is coordinating the fast track testing and deployment of several vaccines.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #23238e; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: initial none initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/ens-newswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/EbolaVaccine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84178\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: initial none initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/ens-newswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/EbolaVaccine.jpg\" alt=\"vaccine\" width=\"350\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015 | Environment News Service. GENEVA, Switzerland, October 26, 2014 (ENS) \u2013 At a high-level emergency meeting convened by\u00a0the 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. 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