WHO entrust to experts the development of treatments and vaccines against Ebola

200 experts in Geneva will have the task of evaluate and develop eight treatments and two experimental vaccines against Ebola virus at the request of the World Health Organization.

The experts will analyze “the possibilities of production and use of these treatments” experimental.

WHO in a document published this Thursday regarding the treatments, reported that “none have been clinically proven.”

However, “despite the exceptional measures to accelerate the pace of clinical trials, new treatments and new vaccines will not be available for widespread use before the end of 2014,” said WHO.

For now only be available “small amounts” of dose or new treatments, the organization said, recalling that in normal circumstances the clinical evaluation of these treatments would take about ten years.