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UK starts first vaccine trial, eight weeks into Ebola emergency

UK starts first vaccine trial, eight weeks into Ebola emergency
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The UK has initiated the first clinical trials for an experimental Ebola vaccine developed by the University of Oxford. The trial involves 50 healthy volunteers and aims to address the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Share Save Add as preferred on Google James Gallagher Health and science correspondent BBC/Trevor Lloyd Researcher Alex Sampson holds the experimental Ebola vaccine A new vaccine to tackle Ebola will now be tested on people after the UK regulator gave permission for trials to take place.

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