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Title: WHO eyes Ebola vaccine by Nov as death toll passes 2,000
Post by: riky on September 06, 2014, 09:00:24 AM
WHO eyes Ebola vaccine by Nov as death toll passes 2,000

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-death-toll-soars-past-2-000-165545495.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UrNANv6FhN5hnE5TZjsxnA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par7968247-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Workers in Personal Protection Equipment suits are seen inside the high-risk quarantined zone of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on September 5, 2014" align="left" title="Workers in Personal Protection Equipment suits are seen inside the high-risk quarantined zone of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on September 5, 2014" border="0" /></a>The death toll from the Ebola epidemic has climbed above 2,000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday, as it voiced hopes a vaccine could be available in November. The deadly virus has claimed 2,097 lives out of 3,944 people infected in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, since emerging last December, the UN's health organ said after a two-day crisis meeting in Geneva. &quot;If proven safe, a vaccine could be available in November 2014 for priority use in health-care workers,&quot; it said in a statement. The meeting in Geneva gathered more than 150 experts in drug research, epidemiology, ethics, regulation and financing.</p><br clear="all"/>

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