Experimental Ebola vaccine trials could begin by January

By Michelle Nurse Last updated Nov 10, 2014

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday that the Ebola crisis response “needs to scale up, get better and perform faster,” as the UN health agency reported that, if judged safe, larger scale trials of an experimental vaccine could be taken to hard-hit West African countries as early as January 2015.

The UN World Health organization (WHO) also said “evidence is mounting that earlier messages about Ebola virus disease having no treatment, cure, or vaccines are no longer entirely accurate.”