UK begins trials of Ebola vaccine developed in just eight weeks
The UK medicines regulator has given approval for an experimental vaccine to be tested on healthy adults.
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"We're doing phase one (early stage) trials of new vaccines all of the time, precisely to be ready for exactly this kind of outbreak."
— Dr Katrina Pollock , Academic
"As soon as we heard there was an outbreak, we were able to scale up really, really quickly."
— Alex Sampson , Academic
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The UK medicines regulator has given approval for an experimental vaccine to be tested on healthy adults.
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