A vaccine to prevent Ebola Virus Disease may be ready by December.
This was disclosed to newsmen by a British scientist Dr. Mike Turner, Head of Infection at the Wellcome Trust, a non-governmental organisation in the United Kingdom.
He said, “We are delighted that the Dangote Foundation is joining the Wellcome Trust and others in the international consortium of funders to develop a multi-pronged approach to combating Ebola.
“This is a fast-moving scene at present and it is not yet clear precisely which partners will fund which components of the work that we hope will lead to new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines.
“What is more important is that the partners are all not just talking about the problems, but actually trying to make things happen and the future inevitable epidemics. If things go well, we hope to know whether this candidate vaccine is safe, with some prospect of protecting people by Christmas.”
Wellcome Trust and Dangote are partnering to find a cure to Ebola which by latest figures released by World Health Organisation has killed over 2100 in West Africa over a period of six months.