Ebola: DRC receives shipment of more than 16,000 vaccine doses
This month, WHO vaccine experts recommended a full-scale human trial of Ervebo, the only existing approved Ebola vaccine, to see if it offered cross-protection against the Bundibugyo strain.
More than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) late Friday, an AFP journalist saw, as the country faces the deadliest Ebola outbreak in its history.
The Ervebo vaccine "has already been used several times, and in particular on a very large scale during the 2018–2020 outbreak", Samuel Roger Kamba, the DRC's minister of health, told the press.
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