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Ebola vaccine ‘ready by end of the year’

A trial of an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus is beginning in Oxford. It involves using a benign ebola gene in conjunction with a virus that causes colds in chimpanzees. Dr Edward Wright is part of the consortium testing the vaccine.

(Photo: A treatment centre for Ebola in Liberia. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images)

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