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Indeed. And after testing it on volunteers in the U.K. and maybe US (it is being tested in Bethesda by the NIH, I don't know the timing), this particular vaccine is being tested on volunteer healthcare workers in Mali, see e.g. http://www.citypress.co.za/news/africas-first-ebola-vaccine-... (I think they've tested it on more people since that article, you no doubt want to go a bit slowly since many of the worst reactions are fairly quick). And I think there are some other African locations scheduled.

Vaccines and epidemics are a pretty well understood concepts after all (ignore the "public health" types who are obsessed with lifestyle etc. issues to the detriment of infectious diseases, like the current head of the CDC), there's no surprise people are attempting to Do The Right Thing with these candidate vaccines. E.g. as I note elsewhere in this discussion, this one is in the process of being produced at an intermediate scale of 10,000 doses, which is a necessary step before true mass production.




Update - they do seem to be trying to crack on:

"Ebola Vaccine May Be Ready as Early as January 2015"

"If further clinical trials result in an effective vaccine, health care workers who treat those with Ebola will likely be the first to receive it."

http://newsone.com/3074615/ebola-vaccine-may-be-ready-as-ear...




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