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WHO sees small-scale use of experimental Ebola vaccines in January

Actors parade on a street after performing at Anono school, during an awareness campaign against Ebola in Abidjan By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it expected to begin small-scale use of two experimental Ebola vaccines in West Africa early next year and in the meantime, transfusions of survivors' blood may offer the best hope of treatment. WHO is working with pharmaceutical companies and regulators to accelerate the use of a range of potential treatments to fight the disease that has no cure and which has killed 2,917 out of 6,263 people infected in West Africa since an outbreak began in March, a senior WHO official said. ...




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