Ebola Vaccine Passes Initial Human Tests

An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com has an article about the first successful tests of an Ebola vaccine on human subjects." From the article: "Nabel and colleagues at the NIH's Vaccine Research Center developed a vaccine made of DNA strands that encode three Ebola proteins. They boosted that vaccine with a weakened cold-related virus, and the combination protected monkeys exposed to Ebola. The first human testing looked just at the vaccine's DNA portion; the full combination will be tested later. At a microbiology meeting in Washington on Friday, Nabel and colleagues reported seeing no worrisome side effects when comparing six people given dummy shots with 21 volunteers given increasing doses of the DNA vaccine."

Comments

When I was a youngun'

[Deliveranc3]

We used to puke blood and have gaping sores appear and gosh darn it that's how we LIKED it!

You really don't want to be in the placebo group

[Belseth]

Let me guess the group bleeding out of their eyes got the placebo?

Grade A Infection

[Doc Ruby]

Until I read the whole blurb, I was sure that Ebola was aceing final exams in sociology and psychology, now that they play the role that the old driver's test used to play in becoming a "real person" in America.

Re:Medical experiments for the lot of us...

[Waffle Iron]

Any chance of "whoops we made an Ebola variant that spreads like the common cold" ?

No problem. Just take new NyQuil-EB: It's the one cold medication especially designed for when you have those itchy, sneezy, bleeding-out-of-every-orifice cold symptoms.

Cure already found.

[CCFreak2K]

Didn't Dustan Hoffman already find a cure for Ebola?

Interesting program.

[biglig2]

"We're going to test this vaccine on you, now there may be a few side effects."
"What sort of thing, doc?"
"Well, nausea, itching, your entire body melting, and there's a chance of drowsiness. So avoid using heavy machinery."