The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
[CDC] has announced that they will conduct a trial
test of the Ebola Vaccine in Nigeria, Gambia and
Mali
The testing is to commence on Tuesday with 20
volunteers to determine if it's safe for human
use.Part of the statement by the National institute of
Health reads
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
has initiated discussions with Ministry of Health
officials in Nigeria about the prospects for
conducting a Phase 1 safety study of the vaccine
among healthy adults in that country. The pace of
human safety testing for experimental Ebola
vaccines has been expedited in response to the
ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa.”
The trials are conducted on healthy adults not
infected by Ebola..
