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Canadian-made Ebola vaccine to start clinical trials in humans
Canada is tightening its airport screening measures and sending an experimental Canadian Ebola vaccine to the U.S. for human trials, as health officials from around the world rally to fight an outbreak of the virus that has already killed thousands in West Africa.
The experimental vaccine will be tested on 40 healthy volunteers at a laboratory in Maryland, with results expected in December.
Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the vaccine contains no live Ebola, and test subjects will not be at risk of contracting the virus.
Dr Felicity Hartnell, who is a clinical research fellow at Oxford University, injects former nurse Ruth Atkins with an experimental vaccine against Ebola in Oxford, England, on Sept. 17, 2014. (AP / Steve Parsons/Pool)
"The Canadian vaccine provides great hope and promise, because it is shown to be 100 per cent effective in preventing the spread of the Ebola virus when tested on animals," Ambrose told reporters on Monday.
Ambrose stressed that the risk of Canada facing an outbreak of Ebola remains very low.
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