GENEVA, Jan. 25 - RIA Novosti, Elizabeth Isakov. Russian vaccine against Ebola will be ready for use by the general public by the beginning of 2016, said on Sunday the director of the department of health and sanitary-epidemiological well-being of human Ministry of Health Marina Shevyreva.

"At the end of 2015, we will know the final results of the tests of our vaccine. Then it is necessary to obtain any additional documents to allow its application in humans, register it first in Russia. It's still some time. So we hope that the drug will be ready for mass use in the early 2016 ", - she told reporters, when asked by RIA Novosti.

Shevyreva clarified that now come pre-clinical trials to determine the safety and tolerability of the vaccine, immunization and receive parameters to determine what dose of the vaccine will provide optimum response.

As explained RIA Novosti academician, Speaker of the National Research Institute of Influenza Influenza Centre WHO Oleg Kiselyov, "in late February, Russia will file the pre-clinical vaccine trials" and will be ready in early March to declare the World Health Organization's readiness for testing in humans. After that WHO should be to announce its recommendations and to appoint the country for further phase of the study.