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Ebola Vaccine Passes Initial Human Tests

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-more-bleeding-out-for-me dept.

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."

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  1. Rainbow Six by ender06 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that ruins the entire book. reading about someone crashing and bleeding out just isn't the same when you know there's a vaccine. wonder if it would work on the Shiva virus.