NIH To Launch Early Ebola Vaccine Trials In September. Results due by January 2015.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/31/ebola-vaccine-trial/13404609/

The National Institutes of Health has been developing an Ebola vaccine for several years that has had "encouraging results" in primates, says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci said he's working with the Food and Drug Administration to fast track the vaccine into a phase 1 clinical trial this fall. This type of trial is the earliest study in humans and aims to make sure that drugs are safe and show some efficacy.

Results from the study should be available by January, Fauci said. If the vaccine proves safe and effective, Fauci said he expects that it could be given to health workers in affected African countries sometime in 2015.

More at site source. Site contains two videos.

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1. Rabies Vaccine Protects Nonhuman Primates Against Deadly Ebola Virus

Researchers from NIAID and Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia, developed a vaccine based on the established rabies virus vaccine that, when tested in mice, proved safe and provided protection against both rabies and Ebola infection. As the next step to that success, the researchers tested three different types of the novel rabies/Ebola vaccine in nonhuman primates to determine their protective effect.

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/ebolaMarburg/Pages/rabiesVaccEbola.aspx

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2. K&R

Thanks for the study link.