NEWSエボラエボラ ワクチンエボラ出血熱

エボラの実験段階ワクチン、イギリス製薬大手が臨床試験へ

英製薬大手グラクソ・スミスクライン（ＧＳＫ）
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A member of the Guinean Red Cross uses a megaphone to give information concerning the Ebola virus during an awareness campaign on April 11, 2014 in Conakry. Guinea has been hit by the most severe strain of the virus, known as Zaire Ebola, which has had a fatality rate of up to 90 percent in past outbreaks, and for which there is no vaccine, cure or even specific treatment. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described west Africa's first outbreak among humans as one of the most challenging since the virus emerged in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. AFP PHOTO / CELLOU BINANI (Photo credit should read CELLOU BINANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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［ロンドン １０日 ロイター］ - 英製薬大手グラクソ・スミスクライン（ＧＳＫ）

エボラ出血熱は西アフリカで感染が拡大しており、これまでに感染者約１０００人が死亡。感染拡大の阻止に向け、各研究機関が対応を加速している。

ＧＳＫの実験ワクチンは既に、霊長類を含む動物実験で有望な結果が得られている。近いうちに人間に対するフェーズ１と呼ばれる初期の臨床試験が実施され、米食品医薬品局（ＦＤＡ）の承認を待っているという。

同社の広報担当者は１０日、「年内」に臨床試験が始まると明らかにした。

一方、同社のパートナーである米国立アレルギー・感染症研究所 （ＮＩＡＩＤ）は声明で、「早ければ２０１４年秋」に臨床試験が始まると明らかにした。９月にも始まる可能性がありそうだ。

ただ、たとえ手続きを速めたとしても、新ワクチンの幅広い実用化に向けた準備が年内に整うことはなさそうだ。

ＧＳＫの関係者は「まだ先は非常に長い」と述べ、実用化時期の見通しについては言及を避けた。

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