Quick Hits: Japan Begins Trials on New Ebola Vaccine

Scientists in Japan just launched the country’s first human trial of a new Ebola vaccine from a Belgian subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

Tim Hayes

Dec 10, 2019

A recent MedicalXpress article discussed Japan’s human trial of a new Ebola vaccine. The treatment, which has previously been tested in monkeys, employs an inactivated form of the virus that can only replicate in artificial cells. The team behind the project at the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo hope that this will make the treatment safer than the alternatives.

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