The World Health Organization announced on Friday that two vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus might be ready by November. The priority would be given to medical personnel working on the front lines, which makeup the highest risk group The New York Times reports.
The non-profit organization known as Doctors Without Borders and has been on the front lines of the current Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa has issued its strongest call yet for immediate and dramatic steps to be taken to contain the spread of the disease.
Nurses in Liberia have gone on strike as concerns grow over the effects of Ebola on the societies of West Africa.
As the Liberian military and local police forces tried to enforce an Ebola quarantine in the capital of Monrovia, civilians began to clash with them.
The distribution of the first doses of an experimental vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus is at least a month away as international aid agencies consider using air drops to deliver supplies to communities that have been quarantined.
Canada has entered into talks with the World Health Organization to provide an Ebola vaccine in Africa after the U.S. company that is manufacturing its own Ebola treatment announced it has sent the last of its supply to Africa.
The authorities in Nigeria have confirmed a second case of Ebola in the capital of Lagos as an experimental serum seems to be helping nurse Americans quarantined in Atlanta back to health.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
