Ebola vaccine trials to be tested as early as December <\/p>\n
Ebola vaccine trials could begin in West-Africa in December, public health authorities said Friday, and could know by April whether the vaccine is effective or not. <\/p>\n
According to Marie-Paule Keiny of the World Health Organization, the trials in December would be a month earlier than originally planned. At least five other vaccines could enter human testing in the first few months of 2015. <\/p>\n
Participants in the trial would include health care workers in high risk areas. While a trial in Liberia would include others at high risk like burial workers or family members caring for Ebola patients. <\/p>\n
Source: The New York Times <\/p>\n
Ocean debris discovered on Kaua'i reveal possibility of mammoth tsunami risk <\/p>\n
Massive marine debrisdiscovered in a sinkhole on the island of Kaua'i reveal there has been at least one mammoth tsunami that struck the islands about 500 years ago, and that another could happen again. <\/p>\n
According to scientists led by Rhett Butler, director of the Hawai'i institute of geophysics and planetology(HIGP) at UH Mnoa, a wall of water up to nine meters (30 feet) high surged onto Hawaiian shores almost half a century ago. The massive tsunami was caused by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. <\/p>\n
The new study examined deposits believed to have come from the extreme event and used models to show how it might have occurred. <\/p>\n
An earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami such as the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years. <\/p>\n
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