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| Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny |
An Ebola vaccine breakthrough could be just weeks away, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official has announced.
Dr
Marie-Paule Kieny, an assistant director general for WHO, said that an
experimental version of the vaccine could be ready for mass distribution
in Africa early next year if current trials are successful.
She
said the trials planned or underway in Europe, Africa and the U.S. are
being accompanied by a push among governments for immediate 'real-world
use' of an approved Ebola vaccine.
Speaking to
reporters in Geneva today Dr Kieny revealed that, if the vaccines are
deemed safe, tens of thousands of doses would be used in a West African
trial in January.
The
organization's emergency committee on Ebola will meet tomorrow to
review the scope of the outbreak and whether additional measures are
needed.
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