Ebola outbreak: 1st human trials of Canadian vaccine to start in U.S.

Monday, October 13, 2014 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

The first human clinical trials of a Canadian-developed Ebola vaccine, VSV-EBOV, begin in Maryland today to assess whether it's safe to use and determine the dose needed to fight the virus that has killed more than 4,000 people, largely in West Africa, Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced.

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