A press conference to announce the medical breakthrough is set for Thursday (October 2), to be presided over by Doctor Udom Kachintorn, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the hospital, which is part of Mahidol University.
It is said that researchers were able to develop a special kind of vaccine that would stimulate antibody production to battle the Ebola virus.
The current Ebola outbreak in west Africa has claimed thousands of lives. As of last Tuesday (September 23), 6,574 people in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Senegal had contracted the disease. Of these, 3,043, or 46 per cent, have died.