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Ebola Vaccine Human Trials Start Next Week In The U.S.

Ebola Vaccine Human Trials Start Next Week In The U.S.

Human testing is due to start next week in the U.S. on an ebola vaccine — one of two leading vaccine candidates, CNN reports.

It can’t come soon enough.

The World Health Organization announced this week that the virus is spreading like wildfire with 40 percent of new cases occurring in just the last three weeks.

Phase one of the testing will be tried on 20 people — healthy volunteers. They’ll be measured to see if there is an immune response. The first tests will be done at the National Institutes of Health, a biomedical research facility located mainly in Bethesda, Maryland. Later, testing will follow in the U.K., Gambia and Mali.

Usually this testing would take years but this trial phase is expected to be complete in 2014, according to CNN.

There will be discussion on bringing the vaccine directly to Africa.

The Ebola virus has claimed more than 1500 lives with 3069 cases. It’s not getting better, it’s getting worse.