Drug companies step up Ebola vaccine race By Reuters - Thursday, October 23, 2014 09:19 Share this As the WHO opens its third emergency meeting on Ebola, Johnson and Johnson says it's speeding up work on an experimental vaccine against the disease - putting pressure on its main rivals in the vaccine race, GSK and NewLink Genetics, to do the same. TAG :WHO, emergency meeting, Ebola, Johnson and Johnson, experimental vaccine, against, disease, GSK, NewLink Genetics