Congo receives more than 16,000 doses of Ebola vaccine as it grapples with unprecedented outbreak
WHO sent 16,250 Ervebo doses to help protect frontline workers and support a Phase 3 trial against the Bundibugyo strain.
- On Friday, 16,250 doses of the Ervebo vaccine arrived at Kinshasa airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo , bolstering efforts against the nation's deadliest Ebola outbreak in history.
- The World Health Organization allocated 70,000 total doses on Thursday, designating 50,000 for frontline health workers and 20,000 for a clinical trial testing efficacy against the Bundibugyo strain.
- Approval for the Zaire strain does not guarantee Ervebo protects against Bundibugyo; scientists hope for some protection while Bundibugyo-specific vaccines remain in clinical development phases.
- Dr. Sania Nishtar, chief executive of the Gavi global vaccine partnership, said officials "must deploy every tool at our disposal" as the outbreak has caused 2,516 deaths among 5,290 confirmed cases.
- The outbreak "is growing exponentially," warned Julien Harneis, the UN's senior Ebola coordinator, noting it doubles every 20 days and threatens to become the largest recorded Ebola crisis by month's end.
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Overall, WHO and its partners are planning to transfer 70,000 doses to the country, and new deliveries are expected early next week.
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Sixteen thousand doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, as the country experiences the deadliest outbreak of the virus in its history...
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