BEIJING Jose Mauri Jersey , March 26 (Xinhua) -- Results from an early trial of an Ebola vaccine developed by Chinese researchers indicate it is safe, according to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal.
The findings suggest the high-dose vaccine is safe and "robustly immunogenic," its developers said Wednesday in the journal, adding that one shot of the high-dose vaccine could mount a "glycoprotein-specific humoral and T-cell response" against the Ebola virus in 14 days.
The vaccine is the first based on the Ebola virus strain responsible for the west African outbreak. Until now, all tested Ebola vaccines were based on a virus strain from the Zaire outbreak of 1976.
The vaccine was jointly developed by the biotechnology institute of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences and Tianjin CanSino Biotechnology.
A team of Chinese researchers, led by Zhu Fengcai with the disease prevention and control center in Jiangsu Province, tested the vaccine's safety in 120 individuals from the province.
The test subjects were randomly assigned a placebo Ignazio Abate Jersey , or a low or high dose of the vaccine.
"No serious adverse events" were reported during the trial, the researchers said, adding the most common reaction was mild pain at the injection site.
According to the study, the new trial vaccine is stable and much easier to store or transport in tropical areas with inadequate cold-chain capacity, such as west Africa.
The deadly Ebola virus has killed more than 10,000 people in west Africa out of nearly 25,000 infected since the start of 2014 Hakan Calhanoglu Jersey , and no licensed vaccine against the virus is available yet.
LISBON, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Portuguese Finance Minister Maria Luis Albuquerque on Thursday said that the news that country's 2014 budget deficit reaching 4.5 percent of gross domestic product was "very positive and encouraging."
"The figures that were published today for the 2014 deficit are better than what we were forecasting," Albuquerque said, adding that it "boosts confidence" that the target for this year is within reach.
The finance minister, who was speaking at the inauguration of the new Easyjet base at Porto airport in northern Portugal, said that citizens would "understand the need for the sacrifices that were made" over the past three years of harsh austerity measures implemented by the government.
Earlier on Thursday, the Portuguese National Institute of Statistics (INE) revealed that the country's public deficit stood at 4.5 percent of GDP in 2014 Gustavo Gomez Jersey , below the government's forecast of 4.8 percent in September last year.
Portugal exited its 78-billion-euro bailout program three years after it signed with the troika of its international lenders -- the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in May last year.
The Portuguese government has been implementing harsh austerity measures to achieve its objective agreed with the troika under the bailout program, including spending cuts and tax hikes.
According to the commitments made by Portugal under the bailout program, the country's deficit last year should have been reduced to 4 percent of GDP.
James Cameron claims “all of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided.”
The Terminator director told The Guardian in a new interview that the Patty Jenkins blockbuster is just “male Hollywood doing the same old thing” on account of the fact that he feels Wonder Woman as a character is “an objectified icon.”
“I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie but, to me, it’s a step backwards,” Cameron said.
Cameron is notable for putting actresses at the forefront of his action films Giovanni Crociata Jersey , from Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor in Terminator and T2 to Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in Aliens (that character originated in Ridley Scott’s 1979 blockbuster Alien). But according to the filmmaker, Connor has an edge on Wonder Woman when it comes to authenticity.
“Sarah Connor was not a beauty icon,” he said. “She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit. And to me, [the benefit of characters like Sarah] is so obvious. I mean Gianluigi Donnarumma Jersey , half the audience is female!”
Cameron is currently at work on the four sequels to 2009’s Avatar, with shooting expected to begin in September.
Wonder Woman has a sequel planned for Dec. 19, 2019, with Gadot on board to return as the lasso-wielding heroine.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's ministry of environment on Thursday launched a new policy and regulatory incentives to encourage production and use of eco-friendly packaging materials ahead of plastic ban that has been temporarily suspended by the courts.
Cabinet Secretary for Environment Judi Wakhungu said the use of biodegradable packaging materials as opposed to polythene carrier bags will create green jobs while promoting health of communities and ecosystems.
"The government will incentivize industries, women and youth groups to produce eco-friendly alternatives to plastic carrier bags that are an eye sore to the environment," Wakhungu said.
She spoke in Nairobi during an exhibition to showcase a range of eco-friendly packaging materials manufactured locally.
The cabinet secretary revealed that local manufacturers of bio-degradable packaging materials will be entitled to tax rebates as the government intensifies efforts to phase out use of plastic bags in the retail sector.
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