Clinical trials start for new Ebola vaccine developed by the University of Oxford

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The university has launched a Phase I trial to test the vaccine in human volunteers and the first vaccinations take place on Thursday.

In these new clinical trials, 26 people aged between 18 and 55 will receive one dose of the ChAdOx1 biEBOV Ebola vaccine at the University of Oxford.2019: Deadly Ebola outbreak in DR Congo 'now a global emergency'

The vaccine is based on a weakened version of a common cold virus that has been genetically modified so it cannot replicate in humans.

 

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