Uganda begins Ebola vaccine trial
KAMPALA: Researchers in Uganda are launching the largest-ever, two-year trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine.
The trial of the Janssen Pharmaceuticals vaccine involves 800 people and is supported by Doctors without Borders and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
More than 1800 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the current outbreak and Rwanda has briefly closed its border with the country over the virus outbreak.
Meanwhile, former Ebola patients Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol marked five years since their treatment in US. They were among four Americans who were treated and recovered at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital in 2014.
A third former patient, Dr Ian Crozier, had planned to join them but is back in the DRC, helping to fight the outbreak.
The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11300 people. | AP ANA