Five Experimental Ebola Vaccines Set For Trial

The World Health Organisation expects hundreds of thousands of doses of a new ebola vaccine to be available by early next year.

The World Health Organisation says it expects 100,000 doses of new ebola vaccine to be available early next year.

The trials could start in west Africa in December, with WHO assistant director general Marie-Paule Kieny saying that the vaccines could be available in the "first half" of 2015.

She added: "Before the end of first half of 2015...we could have available a few hundred thousand doses. That could be 200,000 - it could be less or could be more."

Kieny was speaking after WHO held talks on potential vaccines with health experts, officials from ebola-affected nations and pharmaceutical firms.

There is currently no proven vaccine against the deadly virus and drug companies have previously avoided investing too heavily in a cure because outbreaks before this year's had been small.

--Source: Daily Mail