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WHO warns vaccine to tackle the Ebola outbreak could take nine months [SOUND]

# The World Health Organisation warns that it could take up to nine months before a vaccine against the Bundibugyo virus, which is causing an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, is available. There have been 600 suspected cases of Ebola and 139 suspected deaths reported so far. WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says the health organisation’s emergency committee has agreed the situation is not a pandemic emergency:

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