The World Health Organization (WHO) set out plans on Friday for speeding up development and deployment of experimental Ebola vaccines, saying hundreds of thousands of doses should be ready for use in West Africa by the middle of 2015.
The Geneva-based United Nations health agency confirmed that two leading vaccine candidates are already in human clinical trials.
Marie-Paule Kieny of the World Health Organization says a few hundred thousand doses of experimental Ebola vaccine could be available before the first half of 2015. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
Another five experimental vaccines were also being developed and would begin clinical trials next year.
"Before the end of first half of 2015..we could have available a few hundred thousand doses. That could be 200,000 — it could be less or could be more," the WHO's Marie-Paule Kieny told reporters after a meeting in Geneva of industry executives, global health experts, drug regulators and funders.
Kieny said that plans to roll out the vaccine were changing "week to week" as governments and health officials try to speed up efforts to contain the outbreak that has killed at least 4,877 people, mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
"The vaccine is not the magic bullet. But when ready, they may be a good part of the effort to turn the tide of this epidemic," Kieny said.
Researchers are already testing two candidate vaccines from GlaxoSmithKline and NewLink Genetics, with a third from Johnson & Johnson set to enter human trials in January.
Canada's experimental Ebola vaccine, called rVSV-EBOV, is licensed to NewLink Genetics. The first 250 of 800 vials that were offered by the federal government arrived in Geneva on Wednesday.
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