Russian scientists may be the first to receive Ebola vaccine: primates are successfully tested

Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets told about the successful testing of Russian Ebola vaccines in primates, RIA Novosti reports . According to her optimistic statement, Russian scientists may be the first to receive the finished vaccine.

Not yet fully completed ( primate testing of Russian vaccines ), but all the tests are going well, and the process is going well. Olga Golodets

In February 2015, the Minister of Health of Russia Veronika Skvortsova announced plans to test Ebola vaccines in primates in the next two months. According to the minister, at that time, Russian scientists were developing four different vaccines against the virus, three of them — ahead of schedule. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets in March confirmed the conduct of these tests.

Earlier it became known that the National Institutes of Health of the United States recognized two Ebola vaccines as safe : experts made this conclusion after testing drugs for 600 patients. The next step will be to check whether these vaccines work.

The study of the Ebola virus began in the USSR in the 1980s , when it was considered as a biological weapon.
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