00:00The World Health Organization has backed trials of two vaccine candidates for the Ebola outbreak
00:04currently affecting several African countries. The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugio virus,
00:10for which no vaccine has been approved. One candidate is being developed by the
00:15University of Oxford and India's Serum Institute. The other is from Moderna. The trial will be led
00:21by the DRC's National Institute for Biomedical Research. By October 31st, more than 10,000
00:27people had been infected and over 5,300 had died. The fatality rate is above 50%. Cases have also
00:35been reported in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. Ghana and the United States have introduced travel
00:41restrictions on arrivals from the DRC. WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Geberessus urged countries to lift
00:48them, saying they discouraged transparency and harmed the response. He stressed that vaccines must be
00:55combined with early care, contact tracing, isolation and safeguarding.
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