WHO: Decision on Ebola Mass Vaccination in August at Earliest

An independent advisory body will decide in August at the earliest on whether to recommend widespread introduction of an Ebola vaccine, depending on results of clinical trials and the epidemic's course, the World Health Organization said on Friday. All three worst-hit countries in West Africa - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - aim to conduct phase III final-stage clinical trials of experimental vaccines. Liberia is already testing both the GlaxoSmithKlineand Merck-NewLink...

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