(Bloomberg) — Johnson & Johnson started a trial of its experimental Ebola vaccine in the U.K. and said it will produce 2 million courses of the shot this year.

The first volunteers in Oxford have received an initial dose, and the trial aims to recruit 72 people by the end of January, the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company said in a statement today. Other tests are planned for the U.S., Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. J&J has produced more than 400,000 courses of vaccine for use in large-scale trials by April, and could produce as many as 5 million courses over 12 to 18 months.

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