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About 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine will be donated to the World Health Organisation (WHO) by Canada.
Although this is considered inadequate to tackle a virus that has killed over 1,000 persons in four West African countries, it is the best the country can do as the drug is yet to be mass-produced.
Canada will keep back a small quantity in the event of infections in the country.
The Canadian government only has about 1,500 animal doses of the vaccine, which will take four to six months to make in large quantity,Dr. Greg Taylor, deputy chief public health officer of the Public Health Agency of Canada, told Reuters.
The government’s vaccine is different from the treatment being developed by a Canadian company, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp.
WHO had said on Tuesday that it was ethical to offer untested drugs to those infected by the virus.
WHO had said on Tuesday that it was ethical to offer untested drugs to those infected by the virus.
It had only been tried on animals in a controlled laboratory experiment and has never been used in an environment where there is an outbreak.
Reuters quoted as saying the vaccine“is a global resource”.
Reuters quoted as saying the vaccine“is a global resource”.
EBOLA. CASES. AND DEATHS
COUNTRY. CASES. DEATHS
GUINEA. 506. 373
SIERRA LEONE. 730. 315
LIBERIA. 599. 323
NIGERIA. 13. 3
COUNTRY. CASES. DEATHS
GUINEA. 506. 373
SIERRA LEONE. 730. 315
LIBERIA. 599. 323
NIGERIA. 13. 3
The US is also developing a vaccine, in addition to the ZMapp experimental drug which the manufacturers said has been exhausted after it was administered on a few patients.
The Canadian vaccine, which the agency licensed for commercialisation to US firm BioProtection Systems, a unit of Newlink Genetics, has been effective in animals but has never been tested in humans, Taylor said.
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