Several thousands of experimental Ebola vaccines will be available by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization has announced.
However vaccines could be offered to health workers on the frontline in West Africa as early as December 2014.
WHO cautioned that vaccines would not be a “magic bullet” for ending the outbreak.
WHO’s Marie-Paule Kieny told reporters after a meeting in Geneva, that, “Before the end of the first half of 2015 … we could have available a few hundred thousand doses. That could be 200,000, it could be less or could be more,”
There is no proven cure or vaccine for Ebola.
In response to the largest epidemic of the disease in history, the WHO is accelerating the process of vaccine development
It normally takes years to produce and test a vaccine, but drug manufacturers are now working on a scale of weeks.