African Union's Health Agency Vows Ebola Bundibugyo Vaccine by End of 2026
Africa CDC says the vaccine and medicine will target the Bundibugyo strain as the outbreak has topped 1,000 suspected and confirmed cases, WHO said.
- On Thursday, Director-General Jean Kaseya of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola will be ready by year-end 2026.
- The Bundibugyo strain currently lacks approved vaccine or treatment, hitting Ituri province hardest with more than 90% of cases reported there amid three decades of regional insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Kaseya reported at least 1,077 suspected cases and 246 deaths since the May 15 outbreak, while Africa CDC investigates a vaccine claim from Moscow's Gamaleya National Research Centre targeting the different Zaire strain.
- The United States, Mexico, and Canada implemented aligned public health travel measures to protect North America, banning non-citizens who traveled to DRC, Uganda, or South Sudan in recent weeks.
- Funding and leadership support have increased, with the United States allocating an additional $80 million to combat the Ebola outbreak, bringing total aid to $112m, while World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pledged to do "everything in my power" to help.
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Jean Kaseya, director of the CDC Africa: "A medicine for the Killer strain. If this disease had appeared in Europe or in the United States we would have tools to fight it."
A vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus will be available by the end of the year, assured Thursday the head of the African Union Health Agency.
After the Ebola outbreak in Africa, the African Union Health Authority expects a vaccine by the end of the year.
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