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<\/p>\nA spokesperson for Moderna says the first volunteer in the trial received the shot on Monday in Truro, N.S., and that the company expects to enrol 80 people in Truro, Halifax and Toronto. <\/p>\n
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The Phase 1 trial will evaluate the vaccine\u2019s safety, determine the right dosage, monitor for side effects and study the antibody response. <\/p>\n
Health Canada said in a release issued Tuesday that the department authorized the clinical trial on July 30. <\/p>\n
The United Kingdom has also started a clinical trial for a Bundibugyo virus vaccine, made by the University of Oxford. <\/p>\n
Health Canada said Moderna would need to do Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials to determine the vaccine\u2019s effectiveness before it could seek authorization for wider use.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny final submission would need to meet Health Canada\u2019s stringent safety, efficacy and quality standards before the vaccine could be allowed on the Canadian market,\u201d the department\u2019s news release said. <\/p>\n
Ebola is spread through unprotected contact with the bodily fluids of people sick with the virus or who have died from it. Ebola is a filovirus, which can cause severe hemorrhagic fever.<\/p>\n
Moderna\u2019s executive director of global health security and R&D partnerships said Canada was chosen for the first clinical trial \u201cbased on Moderna\u2019s experience conducting early-phase trials there, Health Canada\u2019s regulatory oversight, and the country\u2019s long-standing contributions to filovirus research.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCanadian researchers and participants are contributing an important first step in a broader international effort to develop a vaccine against a form of Ebola for which no approved protection is currently available,\u201d Hamilton Bennett said in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n
The Bundibugyo form of Ebola was first declared an outbreak on May 15 and has spread in Congo and neighbouring Uganda. The World Health Organization has deemed it a public health emergency of international concern. <\/p>\n
\u2014 With files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 4, 2026.<\/p>\n
Canadian Press health coverage receives support through a partnership with the Canadian Medical Association. CP is solely responsible for this content.<\/p>\n
Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for Moderna says the first volunteer in the trial received the shot on Monday in Truro,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-846114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}