Russian Healthcare Ministry Creates New Powder Vaccine Against Ebola
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published September 20, 2018 | 05:16 PM
The Russian Healthcare Ministry has created a new dry powder vaccine against deadly Ebola virus disease, Minister Veronika Skvortsova said on Thursday.
ST. PETERSBURG (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th September, 2018) The Russian Healthcare Ministry has created a new dry powder vaccine against deadly Ebola virus disease, Minister Veronika Skvortsova said on Thursday.
"We have created a new form of [Ebola] vaccine in powder," Skvortsova said at a meeting with Djene Kaba Conde, the spouse of the president of Guinea, on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women's Forum in St. Petersburg.
The vaccine is now being tested on volunteers and has showed promising results so far, the Russian minister added.
"I think that one of the areas of our further cooperation could be the creation of the pharmaceutical sector in Guinea, not only [to fight] Ebola but also other tropical diseases," Skvortsova stressed.
Conde welcomed the proposal and said that Guinea was interested in the production of malaria vaccine on its territory.
In August last year, Guinea launched the post-registration clinical trials of Russia's Ebola vaccine Gam Evac Combi, which was developed by the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.
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