From New York Times

Public health authorities said that they hoped to begin trials of Ebola vaccines in disease-ravaged West Africa as early as December and could know around April whether they were effective, clearing the way for possible mass inoculations to stem the epidemic.

“Vaccine is not the magic bullet,” Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny of the World Health Organization said at a news conference in Geneva. “But when ready, they may be a good part of the effort to turn the tide of this epidemic.”

Dr. Kieny, assistant director-general for health systems and innovation for the organization, spoke on Friday about the conclusions of a meeting the day before where government officials, drug companies and others discussed how to test and possibly deploy vaccines most effectively.

Trials in December would be a month earlier than Dr. Kieny had indicated earlier this week. Manufacturers have committed to having millions of vaccine doses available in 2015, with hundreds of thousands ready halfway through the year, she said.

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