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Experimental Ebola vaccine that Canada has donated to the World Health Organization will be shipped to Geneva next week, the global health agency said Thursday.
The WHO is finalizing the legal agreement needed for it to take possession of between 800 and 1,000 vials of donated vaccine. Once that contract is signed the vaccine will then be shipped, a senior official told The Canadian Press.
"We are negotiating the final agreement and we should have it signed, I hope, by the beginning of next week. And we should be able to move the vaccine next week," said Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, the WHO's assistant director general for health systems and innovation.
"This is why the vaccine is not yet in Geneva, and not then distributed further."
The Public Health Agency of Canada — whose scientists invented the vaccine and which paid to have the vials produced — said the vaccine will be sent when the request comes.
"PHAC is confirming the details with the WHO and stands ready to ship," a spokesperson from the agency said in an email.
Soon-to-start clinical trials will establish if the vaccine is safe to use in people and how much — or little — is needed to protect a person. It is hoped the results will show that a low dose can be used, which would mean each vial might contain up to 100 doses of vaccine.
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