- Scientists working on developing vaccines against Ebola have found they can 'harvest' antibodies from volunteers vaccinated in research trials ...
LONDON,: - Scientists working on developing vaccines against Ebola have found they can"harvest" antibodies from volunteers vaccinated in research trials and use them to make treatments for the deadly viral infection.
"It is a small, extra step that could lead to new antibody therapies from an increased pool of donors and with reduced risk," said Alain Townsend, a professor at the MRC Human Immunology Unit at Britain's Oxford University. Ebola is now spreading in Democratic Republic of Congo, where World Health Organization data show at least 676 people have been killed and more than 700 others infected in an outbreak that started eight months ago.The largest Ebola epidemic in history swept through Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea in 2013-2016, killing more than 11,000 people.
The Oxford team decided to try using blood from trial volunteers who had been given an experimental Ebola vaccine and whose immune system had responded to the shot by making antibodies. They successfully isolated 82 antibodies taken from 11 volunteers in trial at Oxford's Jenner Institute.
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