
Four vaccines against Ebola have been developed and submitted for testing, head of Russia's Ministry of Health Veronika Skvortsova told journalists on Wednesday.
The development and testing of vaccines was already one week ahead of schedule, Skvortsova noted. "We prepared four vaccines, each of them has a different basis," the minister said. "At the moment, these vaccines have already entered the stage of clinical trials," she added. One of the vaccines is already being tested on primates, while others will enter this stage in a month, according to Russian Tass news agency.
The Ebola virus outbreak started in December 2013 in West Africa. The number of victims has reached 9,000 people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). More than 22,500 people are infected. There is still no certified treatment or vaccine against Ebola. Apart from Russia, France and Japan are working on developing the vaccine.
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