Ebola Vaccine Passes Initial Human Tests 140
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com has an article about the first successful tests of an Ebola vaccine on human subjects." From the article: "Nabel and colleagues at the NIH's Vaccine Research Center developed a vaccine made of DNA strands that encode three Ebola proteins. They boosted that vaccine with a weakened cold-related virus, and the combination protected monkeys exposed to Ebola. The first human testing looked just at the vaccine's DNA portion; the full combination will be tested later. At a microbiology meeting in Washington on Friday, Nabel and colleagues reported seeing no worrisome side effects when comparing six people given dummy shots with 21 volunteers given increasing doses of the DNA vaccine."
When I was a youngun' (Score:5, Funny)
You really don't want to be in the placebo group (Score:5, Funny)
Grade A Infection (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Medical experiments for the lot of us... (Score:5, Funny)
No problem. Just take new NyQuil-EB: It's the one cold medication especially designed for when you have those itchy, sneezy, bleeding-out-of-every-orifice cold symptoms.
Cure already found. (Score:2, Funny)
Interesting program. (Score:5, Funny)
"What sort of thing, doc?"
"Well, nausea, itching, your entire body melting, and there's a chance of drowsiness. So avoid using heavy machinery."