Finally good and major news from Baltimore which is based Bio-tech, because there finally a vaccine available for Ebola Vaccine which is being effective for the strain that’s killed thousands in West Africa last year. Ebola Vaccine will tested on human this year in the month of july said by A Baltimore Company.During 2014, the outbreak of the West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire virus killed nearly 10,000 and caused worldwide concern.
Ebola Virus Vaccine to be tested in July
The company, with its headquarters on Beckley Street, said the vaccine will be in one dose. “This is a very significant finding,” said Dr. John Eldridge, chief scientist of Profectus. It will fight the Makona strain of the virus told wbal.
According to The news Repoerts, “We are excited at the possibility of helping develop a way to stop this deadly disease. We have a lot of more work to accomplish but it’s important to note that this is a big step,” said Geisbert.
This new vaccine employs a virus not harmful to humans called vesicular stomatitis virus that had a part of the Ebola virus inserted into it. This “Trojan horse” vaccine safely triggered an immune response against Ebola Zaire, told Dna India.
Accroding to NtTimes, ” The Vaccinies have not been tested in people, buut safety trials in healthy volunteers will probably begin early this summer, said Thomas w. Geisbert, an Ebola Expert at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and senior author of a report published on wenesday in the journal Nature.
“It was not known whether any of these vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,” said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer-Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc, which developed the vaccine with UTMB researchers, told Journal Nature.
“Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus,” said Eldridge. Both weakened vaccines have features of the Mayinga strain of Ebola virus, as do most other candidate Ebola Zaire vaccines currently under evaluation. The findings are published in the journal Nature.
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