Ghana has plan to temporary stop the test of two Ebola vaccines in an
eastern town after legislators backed local protests against the trials
sparked by fears of contamination.
According to country's Food and Drugs Authority they had begun
enlisting volunteers in Hohoe in the Volta region to be injected with
drugs produced by Johnson & Johnson and Bavarian Nordic as part of a
global Ebola vaccine drive.
Youth leaders threatened to boycott the programme.
“We don't want to be guinea pigs,” one local leader.
Ebola has killed 2347 people in Guinea, 3915 people in Sierra Leone, 4806 people in Liberia and 8 people in Nigeria, since it began more than a year ago but new
cases have declined sharply. Ghana has no record case.
Health
Ministry spokesman Tony Goodman said “The (health) minister has suspended the trials
indefinitely because the people said they don't want it,”.
The worst-hit countries have completed first trials of an experimental vaccine.
On Wednesday, parliament ordered the trials suspended
and summoned the health minister to appear next week on the matter,
senior parliamentary official Ebenezer Dzietror.
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