Results may be months away, but efforts are advancing towards enhanced treatment and the world’s first vaccine for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday as deaths and cases rise in the largest ever outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Key points: 3,748 cases, including 1,657 deaths and 708 recoveries, as of 1 August, according to WHO; while Ebola vaccines exist, trials for the first ever Bundibugyo species-specific candidate vaccine began in the UK on 24 July, with a second starting in Canada this week; clinical trials of medicine and treatment options are rolling out in Ituri province, the restive epicentre of the current outbreak; a new 100-bed treatment centre was inaugurated in Bunia, capital of Ituri.
New Ebola vaccine trial launches as outbreak spreads in DR Congo | UN News
(source: UN News)
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