Lockdowns: Saving lives, but ruining livelihoods in Africa
Africa
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WHO pre-qualifies first Ebola vaccine
The announcement comes hot on the heels of a decision last Monday by the European Commission to allow the release to market of an injectable vaccine.
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Congo has given over 200,000 people Merck Ebola vaccine
Figures released by the government’s Ebola committee showed that 204,044 people had been inoculated since 8 August.
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Ebola fight has new science but faces old hurdles in restive Congo
The fight against Ebola has advanced more in recent years than in any since it was discovered near Congo’s eponymous river in 1976.
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Ebola vaccinations in eastern Congo due to begin on Wednesday
More than 3,000 doses remain in stock in the capital Kinshasa, allowing authorities to quickly deploy it to the affected areas near the Ugandan border.
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Medical workers in Congo city finish vaccinating contacts of Ebola patients
The VSV-EBOV vaccine has been administered to 1,112 people, including 567 in the northwestern city.
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We finally have a life-saving vaccine for Ebola
The current Ebola outbreak in the DRC has already taken the lives of 25 people. But this time we have a new weapon – a vaccine.
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To really tackle Ebola, we have to find its safe house
To be prepared for Ebola, we need to discover how the virus moves through the wild and the city alike.
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Why the world needs more than one Ebola vaccine
Having this vaccine means the world is better placed now than it was in 2014-2016, when the hemorrhagic fever killed more than 11,300 people in history’s worst Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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Congo approves use of Ebola vaccination to fight outbreak
The vaccine, known as rVSV-ZEBOV and developed by Merck, is not yet licensed but was shown to be highly protective against Ebola in clinical trials published last December.
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Congo approves use of Ebola vaccination to fight outbreak
Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry has approved the use of a new Ebola vaccine.
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Two-part Ebola vaccine offers long-lasting protection
The vaccine requires one dose to prime the immune system and a second shot to boost the body's response.
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WHO: West Africa Ebola outbreak no longer poses global risk
There are now calls to lift any travel bans & trade restrictions affecting Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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5th person dies in Guinea Ebola flare-up
The latest case was detected in Macenta prefecture, about 200 kilometres from the village of Korokpara.
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2 people test positive for Ebola in Guinea
Four people were tested and two of them were found to have Ebola.
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Liberia shutters Red Cross amid inquest into Ebola spending
Two Liberian Red Cross officials were suspended in November, accused of misusing $1.8 million in donor funds.
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Sierra Leone confirms new Ebola case
The new patient is a relative who had helped care for the earlier victim, Mariatu Jalloh.
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Ebola: 1 death recorded in Sierra Leone
The country was declared free of the virus late last year, and the region as a whole cleared yesterday.
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Guinea declared free of Ebola virus
Guinea was declared free of Ebola on Tuesday after more than 2,500 people died from the virus.
