West Africa awaits Ebola aid, vaccine trials

Posted on Friday, September 26, 2014


West Africa awaits Ebola aid, vaccine trials

A guard waits to greet potential Ebola patients at the JFK hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on September 25, 2014Monrovia (AFP) - Ebola-hit west Africa's governments were desperately counting on promises of urgent global aid to be effected Friday as the World Health Organization announced desperately awaited vaccines could be ready early next year.



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