UK and Canada Race To Develop First Ebola Vaccine

News that vaccines to fight Ebola are being developed in Russia as earlier announced by the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova grabbed global media headlines and pushed the West to hasten up their own Ebola research. But which laboratory will be the first to get it to market? In recent days the World Health Organisation (WHO) has cited two experimental vaccines that have showed promising results when they were tested on lab monkeys. Both could one day help eradicate Ebola. The current outbreak has claimed more than 4,500 lives, mostly in West Africa. The first candidate vaccine has been named VSV-EBOV by scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Canada, and will be licensed by the US firm NewLink Genetics.