First Ebola vaccination trial in Mali promising

The first Ebola vaccination trial in Mali is looking bright as volunteers have responded positively to the vaccines, an infectologist in Mali said Thursday. “We know that after two weeks they’re starting to have some immune response and there are no adverse reactions,” Samba Sow, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) in Mali, told the BBC. Seydou Cissoko, a pediatrician in Mali, the first volunteer in the country, was vaccinated on 8 October at the CVD in the capital, Bamako. “Since I received the vaccine, I feel well, there is no difference in the way I feel now and how felt before,” Cissoko was quoted as saying by the BBC. The need to constantly be in contact with Ebola-infected patients seems a motivational factor for doctors to undergo the trial, according to Cissoko. As long as blood samples give result in 28 days, the prospects for the vaccine are...