CDC testing Ebola candidate vaccine on health workers in Sierra Leone

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday (April 14) that it is working with the Sierra Leone College of Medicine and and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) and the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) to test an Ebola candidate vaccine on roughly 6,000 frontline health workers in the West African nation hit hard by the outbreak that swept the region last summer. The Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE) will test the...