Ebola vaccine field trial likely to start in one month – CDC
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) hopes to have an Ebola vaccine field trial within a month, CDC Director Tom Frieden said during a press conference on Tuesday, Sputnik News reported.
“I hope that we’ll be in field with new tools within a month or so,” Frieden said.
CDC is in the clinical trial phase of developing Ebola treatments, Frieden said, but admitted that “vaccine work is very challenging.”
“We can’t proceed with that trial until we have the completion of the Phase I trials to determine whether the vaccines are safe, that should happen within the next one to two weeks…after that if everything goes well we’ll want to be in the field with the vaccine trial,” Frieden said.
Currently there are no Ebola vaccines that have been approved by the US Federal Drug Administration, however several vaccines around the world are in the process of being developed for treatment.