Ebola Update - Noon Briefing (9 January 2015)

United Nations - Ebola Update by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General at the Daily Noon Briefing at UN Headquarters in New York (9 January 2015).
On Ebola, the World Health Organization concluded a meeting with researchers, regulators, vaccine developers and policy makers on vaccines.
Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director-General of Health Systems and Innovation at the World Health Organization, said in a press conference that so far, the 2 Ebola vaccines that have already undergone the first phase of testing have an acceptable safety profile.
The third phase of testing – which consists of giving the vaccine to healthy volunteers in affected areas - is about to begin. Research teams have been set up and preparations have been put in place, including special refrigerators for Ebola vaccine tests, in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Also today, the Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, and the Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro, are in Sierra Leone, before heading to Guinea on Sunday.
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