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The latest in a string of candidate vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus was proven safe in an early trial in healthy adults in China, its developers said Wednesday.
      
But while it triggered an antibody response in test subjects, further trials must be held to establish whether the drug actually protects against Ebola, they said.
      

A year after the formal announcement of the spread of Ebola by the WHO, at least 24,000 people were infected and more than 10,000 lost their lives.

Ebola epidemic virus has caused the death of over 10.000 people in West Africa, as the latest World Health Organization report released indicates.

According to the same report, 24.350 people have been infected and been sick in nine countries, while 10.004 of them have died.

The first large-scale trial of an Ebola vaccine will begin in Guinea at the weekend, the World Health Organization said March 5, weeks after a similar test kicked off in neighbouring Liberia.
      

Ebola-hit Sierre Leone and Guinea saw an increase in the last week in unsafe burials that risk spreading the disease, the World Health Organization reported.        

Guinea qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals on Jan. 29 after a drawing of lots was required to separate them and Mali.
      
They will go through to a quarter-final on Sunday in Malabo against Group C winners Ghana while Mali go home.
      

The Ebola epidemic is decreasing but is still present in a third of the areas of the three worst affected west African nations, UN Ebola coordinator David Nabarro warned Jan. 29.
      

AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: On the second and final day of the prestigious Bocuse d'Or cooking competition, the jury who is to decide on the winner had to handle an explosion of fantasy: for their guinea fowl platter, Germany's team took inspiration from the ancestral dilemma "What came first - the egg or the chicken?", team Hungary featured in the finest gourmet competit

AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: The President of Hungary's team in the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition told AGERPRES that it takes more than just being a dab hand in the kitchen to participate in the famous gastronomy event.

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Human tests of two possible Ebola vaccines have proven safe and efficacy tests will begin within weeks in the three west African countries ravaged by the deadly virus, the World Health Organization said Jan. 9.