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BBC: Would you trial an Ebola vaccine?

BBC's Catrin Nye visited the Oxford Vaccine Group to find out about the quest for an Ebola vaccine.

The Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) is part of the University of Oxford's Department of Paediatrics.

Victoria Derbyshire's daily news and current affairs programme went to the Oxford lab to find out about what trial participants are doing to help, and to speak to OVG Director, Andy Pollard, about his groundbreaking work.

Watch the clip here.

See the full programme here.

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