As authorities and drug companies hurriedly prepare to begin testing #Ebola vaccines in West #Africa, they are starting to contemplate a new challenge: whether an ebbing of the #outbreak could make it more difficult to determine if the experimental vaccines are effective. “For this reason, it’s very urgent that we get into the field very quickly to do these clinical trials, because if there are very, very, very few cases of Ebola, as I’m sure you understand, it’s going to be difficult to test whether the #vaccines work or not,” Dr. Helen Rees, an adviser to the World Health Organization, said during a news conference on Friday at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:33:06 +0000