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Explainer: What Ebola vaccines and treatments are under development

Explainer: What Ebola vaccines and treatments are under development

By GhanaSummary NewsroomSouth Africa

SS), opens new tab test, known as Ebola Virus (EBOV) Real Time RT-PCR Kit, was the first diagnostic test ​for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola virus to be added to the WHO’s Emergency Use Listing on July 2.

ANTIVIRAL DRUGS Gilead Sciences, opens new tab experimental oral antiviral drug obeldesivir is being considered as a potential post-exposure treatment by the WHO to prevent those exposed to Ebola from developing the disease.

Moderna, opens new tab said it has partnered with ​CEPI to advance its mRNA-based BDBV vaccine candidate into pre-clinical and early clinical testing.

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