Two vaccines against the Zaire strain of Ebola virus are immunogenic and safe in both adults and children, according to initial results from two phase II clinical trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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A shipment of Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial have arrived in Uganda. Health minister Jane Ruth Aceng and the WHO Uganda incident manager attended the ceremony to receive the 1,200 doses, Thursday (Dec. 8).
Almost by accident, Edward Jenner and others stumbled on the apparent resistance to smallpox clearly evident in milkmaids previously infected with cowpox. Not knowing why, they clumsily stumbled on what is still one of the most important medical discoveries of all time. Smallpox with its 30% mortality is estimated to have claimed some 500,000,000 lives globally throughout history.