WHO to fast-track testing and production of Ebola vaccines

The World Health Organisation will today hold a meeting to examine the most promising treatments of Ebola and discuss how to fast track their testing and production. 

Disease control experts, medical researchers, officials from affected countries, and specialists in medical ethics will be represented at the meeting in Geneva. 

More than 1, 900 people have died in West Africa's Ebola outbreak. 

WHO Head, Margaret Chan, said there are 3,500 confirmed or probable cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. 

Ms Chan described the outbreak as the largest most severe and most complex ever seen. 

BBC