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Ebola’s spread hastens preparations for vaccine testing

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Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSCDC director: ‘Ebola will get worse before it gets better’ American doctor speaks out about his Ebola recovery Doctors Without Borders: Ebola efforts need more people in the fieldDoctors Without Borders: Ebola efforts need more people in the field GWEN IFILL: Adding to the difficulty, a different strain of Ebola has appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, causing 13 deaths so far.  Here at home, the National Institutes of Health announced today it will start testing an experimental Ebola vaccine next week. For more on that development, I’m joined by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH.  He will oversee those trials. Dr. Fauci, thanks for joining us again. What would trials like this look like? DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Well, first of all, it’s an early phase one trial. And by phase one, we mean this is the first time this vaccine