Russia Claims to Have Ebola Vaccine
Russia Claims to Have Ebola Vaccine – Russian officials say the country is well on its way to completing an Ebola vaccine and will soon be testing in clinical trials.
While the logistics behind the development and testing are unclear, Russian Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs Olga Golodets told the press on Monday that scientists were “about to finish work on developing the vaccine.”
Little scientific evidence is publicly available to support Golodets’ claim, but the country’s health minister said at least one vaccine, which is called Triazoverin, will be ready to be tested in Guinea in two months.
Triazaverine was said to have been created at the Urals branch of the Academy of Sciences. Originally developed as a flu vaccine, it has been experimentally used to treat other viruses nut has never actually been tested for treatment of Ebola.
Published on Oct 13, 2014
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