Another vaccine from Merck and NewLink will also be tested.
“Shipping the vaccine today is a major achievement and shows that we remain on track with the accelerated development of our candidate Ebola vaccine,” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chairman of global vaccines at GSK said in a company release.
Ebola who is patient zero?
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ZMapp is an experimental drug that has been used to help patients who have already been infected by the virus. The drug maker, Mapp Biopharmaceutical ran out of the drug last year, but has been making enough doses for a small human trial.
The number of new Ebola cases in Liberia has been declining, but public health leaders say that there are still “little mini outbreaks” and that “until there is a very last case, (an epidemic) is not over until it is over,” Fauci said.
Since the outbreak began in December 2013, there have been 21,759 infections and 8,668 people have died from Ebola.
