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New Ebola trial vaccine 'safe': researchers

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AFP                                                                                                   March 25, 2015

Paris - The latest in a string of candidate vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus was proven safe in an early trial in healthy adults in China, its developers said Wednesday.

 But while it triggered an antibody response in test subjects, further trials must be held to establish whether the drug actually protects against Ebola, they said.

Dubbed Ad5-EBOV, the vaccine is the first based on the strain of the Ebola virus behind the west African outbreak, according to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal.

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Read Lancet article.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960553-0/abstract

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