Ebola cure: WHO says 200,000 vaccine doses could be ready by 2015

As many as several hundred thousand doses of two leading experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready by mid-2015, the World Health Organization said Friday, according to Reuters. Human trials for the treatment candidates are already under way, and another five drugs will begin clinical trials next year, the U.N. health agency said. “Before the end of the first half of 2015 … we could have available a few hundred thousand doses,” the WHO’s Marie-Paule Kieny told reporters after a meeting in Geneva, where the organization is headquartered. “That could be 200,000. It could be less or could be more.” The two experimental vaccines come from GlaxoSmithKline and NewLink Genetics. In the ongoing effort to contain the current Ebola outbreak, health experts around the world are pushing ahead with several experimental vaccines to head off the virus. There are currently no drugs or vaccines approved in the U.S. to prevent or treat Ebola,...