In St. Petersburg created a vaccine against Ebola

In cultural capital, St. Petersburg created a vaccine against Ebola. The drug from a hemorrhagic fever that was created at the research Institute of influenza, will be tested in Africa.

"The system is ready. Created by a group of young scientific workers of our University the candidate vaccine against Ebola tested for genetic stability," stated the Director of the University Oleg Kiselyov. It was also suggested that before the end of the test vaccine will validates candidate.

Stage preclinical testing on animals created the drug will be held in Virology centre of the Ministry of defense, where he has already been transferred, said Kiselyov. Clinical tests, which will include the participation of volunteers, will hold in Africa. All the frontiers of research will end in early February 2015, explained head of the Institute, according to TASS.

As we were informed Days.Roux, for half a year, Russia is ready to provide 3 vaccine against Ebola, which claimed thousand of lives in Africa, and has now reached the Western States. On the terrain of our country cases are not detected, but the domestic virologists went to Guinea, in order to help fight the epidemic. 1 of vaccines created on the basis of a weakened strain of Ebola, announced health Minister Veronika Skvortsova.

Medicines against fever scientists want to create in the other countries, for example in Canada and England. English researchers began to conduct experiments with vaccines in the Republic of Mali, bordering Guinea, where raging epidemic. However on the first results can be said to have closer to December. Meanwhile, in the world have not produced a vaccine that could protect against infection.

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