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The World Health Organization (WHO) said clinical trials of vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus will start and will likely be ready for widespread use by early next year. There is currently no available cure or vaccine for Ebola, one of the deadliest viruses known to man. British pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline is set to start clinical trials of a vaccine next month. The epidemic claimed nearly 1,000 lives in west Africa. UN assistant director-general Marie-Paule Kieny acknowledged that any vaccine rushed to market would not be tested as rigorously. Kieny, who headed WHO’s vaccine division during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009, is acutely aware that helping rush a vaccine to market can cause controversy. In 2009, WHO was accused of helping line the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies.
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