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An experimental Ebola vaccine has been injected into a human volunteer for the first time.
60 healthy volunteers are taking part in the clinical trial at the University of Oxford; one of the them – Ruth Atkins, a communications manager in the NHS from Marcham, Oxfordshire – has been injected with the vaccine.
The vaccine – made from a harmless chimpanzee virus that has been genetically modified to carry a harmless measure of the Ebola DNA – has been proven to be 100 percent effective in monkeys in the first month, with some protection remaining 10 months later.
