2013-2016 Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/2013-2016/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 2013-2016 Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/2013-2016/ 32 32 Promising reports from Ebola vaccine trials https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/promising-reports-ebola-vaccine-trials/ Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/promising-reports-ebola-vaccine-trials/ Two experimental vaccines against the Ebola virus have shown promise in protecting against the haemorrhagic fever for at least a year. The report in the New England Journal 0f Medicine  is the first full account of a large-scale effort to test what could be the first vaccine against Ebola. The outbreak of the highly contagious […]

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]]> Two experimental vaccines against the Ebola virus have shown promise in protecting against the haemorrhagic fever for at least a year.

The report in the New England Journal 0f Medicine  is the first full account of a large-scale effort to test what could be the first vaccine against Ebola.

The outbreak of the highly contagious and often deadly virus killed more than 11 000 people, mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, as it swept West Africa from late 2013 to 2016.

The phase II study involved 1 500 people in Monrovia, Liberia.

After one month, 84 percent of recipients of the first vaccines developed an antibody response. At one year, 80 percent still had this protection.

For the second vaccine , 71 percent developed an antibody response, and 64 percent still had such a response at one year, when the trial ended.

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