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Health

don’t have are the partners to run the facilities and we need
them now,” he said.

of the American Chemical Society in the United States on
8 September.

Vaccine trial
U.S. health authorities have expressed hope that a new
vaccine will bring an end to the outbreak that has killed
about 5,000 people and infected close to 14,000.

According to the WHO, around 760,000 children die
yearly around the world from diarrhoea and developing
countries are the most affected.

Lausanne’s University Hospital in Switzerland began
testing the vaccine on November 4 on healthy volunteers.
“I think the sooner we have a vaccine that works, that is
safe, then the sooner we can use that vaccine to vaccinate
the people in West Africa and wherever else the Ebola
could spread,” said Tina, a medical doctor and Ebola
vaccine volunteer whose last name was not disclosed.
Experts said there is no danger of contracting Ebola from
the vaccine.
“What we measure is antibodi