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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES by Philip Roth       April 7, 2015

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Health officials’ best bet for discovering a vaccine for Ebola lies with the West African country of Guinea, where the outbreak that has killed an estimated 10,500 over the past year began, and the place that researchers largely ignored when it came time for drug trials. As researchers race to find a vaccine before the window of opportunity closes – essentially, before the epidemic is brought to an end -- scientists with the World Health Organization are beginning to test a vaccine in Guinea manufactured by researchers in the U.S. and Canada.

The race to find a vaccine for Ebola is in its final lap. Pictured, research assistant Georgina Bowyer works on a vaccine for Ebola at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, southern England, Jan. 16, 2015. Reuters

REUTERS                                                    March 18, 2015

WASHINGTON ==The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said an advisory panel will discuss the development of Ebola vaccines, days after an American health worker was flown back after being tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone.

The federal health regulator would discuss the development of vaccines on May 12, it announced on its website on Wednesday.

The resurgence of the virus last year prompted drugmakers from across the world to develop new treatments that are in different stages of studies....

The World Health Organization said it will decide on mass vaccination against the virus in August.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-health-ebola-fda-idUSKBN0ME1D520150318
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See Federal Register notice of meeting.

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/03/17/2015-06116/vaccines-and-related-biological-products-advisory-committee-notice-of-meeting

CBCNEWS.CA                                                      March 5, 2015

A national recruitment drive for health-care workers to help with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been halted for now as the number of new cases of the disease is dropping.

The Canadian Red Cross says the focus is shifting from an emergency response to recovery.

Almost 900 Canadians responded to a recruitment drive last fall by the federal government and the Red Cross....

Dr. Gregory Taylor, Canada's chief public health officer, said a second mobile lab is on its way back to Canada and should arrive by spring. But he said Canada is not walking away from West Africa.

Instead, he said, the federal government is about to send a team of five new experts into the field for four to eight weeks.  "What we're sending is epidemiologists, border health specialists and some emergency management skills, and in particular we've been asked to send French-speaking experts in those areas," Taylor told CBC News.

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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ebola-doctors-nurses-no-longer-100000922.html

TORONTO SUN      by Hal Roberts                              Jan. 13, 2015

OTTAWA — A third mobile lab and two more scientists from the Public Health Agency of Canada are on their way to help fight Ebola in West Africa.

Sean Freeman points out on a map of Africa where he was working at the Red Cross offices in downtown Calgary, Alta. where he has returned from working at the Red Cross Ebola Treatment Centre in Kenema, Sierra Leone. on Monday January 5, 2015. Stuart Dryden/QMI Agency

The doctors will spend a week in Amsterdam and Belgium to train with Doctors without Borders before heading to Sierra Leone on Jan. 18.

"It is our hope that the work of this third mobile laboratory — providing physicians with ongoing information about the health of their patients — will allow health-care workers to provide medical treatments tailored to their patients' needs and ultimately, save more lives," Health Minister Rona Ambrose said in a statement Tuesday.

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