Race on for Ebola drug

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Race on for Ebola drug

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/race-ebola-drug-193155498.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0QCK9dMNk9syEoHo4QK1vA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/31ca5949100beb673b03eead3823f867eeaa6d6d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Members of Doctors Without Borders put on protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry, where people infected with the Ebola virus are being treated, June 28, 2014" align="left" title="Members of Doctors Without Borders put on protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry, where people infected with the Ebola virus are being treated, June 28, 2014" border="0" /></a>As the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history tightens its grip on West Africa, pharmaceutical companies have refocused their quest for a treatment or vaccine. While several experimental drugs exist, few have moved beyond the stage of animal tests and negotiations are under way to try and fast-track drugs for the haemorrhagic fever that kills up to 90 percent of people it infects. A vaccine being developed by British pharma company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) may enter clinical trials to test for safety and efficacy next month, World Health Organisation vaccines head Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele has told French radio. The GSK vaccine, being developed with backing from the US National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is made of an engineered virus, or vector, containing two non-infectious Ebola genes.</p><br clear="all"/>

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