Congo Begins Ebola Vaccinations to Fight Country’s Worst Outbreak on Record, Health Minister Says
- On Thursday, Congo began vaccinating people against Ebola as Health Minister Roger Kamba officially launched the campaign in Kisangani, targeting frontline health workers and responders amid the country's deadliest outbreak on record.
- As of Tuesday, the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak had recorded 5,713 confirmed cases and 2,744 deaths, spreading across six provinces including Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu. The disease remains out of control due to insecurity and population movements.
- The World Health Organization approved 70,000 doses of Ervebo for the campaign. Authorities allocated 50,000 doses for frontline workers, while 20,000 will support a clinical trial to study whether the vaccine protects against Bundibugyo.
- Although Ervebo is approved for Zaire ebolavirus, officials are using it under a compassionate-use program for Bundibugyo. Placide Mbala Kingebeni, Africa CDC's director for research and clinical trials, said data will be collected to measure vaccine efficacy.
- The World Health Organization warned the outbreak is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola crisis, which killed more than 11,000 people primarily in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Vaccination efforts aim to prevent health workers from carrying the virus into communities.
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Congo has begun vaccinating people against Ebola. The vaccination campaign started on Thursday in Kisangani, in the east of the country. The vaccine Ervebo is being used in the vaccination campaign. There is a significant uncertainty attached to this: the current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo type of the Ebola virus, whereas Ervebo is approved for protection against a different type, the Zaire variant. There is currently no approved vacc…
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Congo begins Ebola vaccinations to fight country’s worst outbreak on record, health minister says
Congo has started vaccinating people against Ebola to combat its worst outbreak on record. The campaign launched Thursday in Kisangani, Tshopo province.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo began today vaccination against Ebola with the Ervebo vaccine, under a compassionate use protocol, in the north-eastern province of Tshopo, while the country intensified its efforts to contain the current outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of the virus. The Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Roger Kamba, officially started vaccination in Kisangani, capital of the province of Tshopo, an…
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