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Congo faces unprecedented Ebola outbreak without approved vaccine protection (opens in a new tab)

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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedThe outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the largest ever recorded in the country and is caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola virus, for which there is no approved vaccine.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedCEPI announced funding of up to US$8.5 million for Hilleman Laboratories to advance a Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine candidate and produce doses for human testing.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedWHO experts identified Hilleman’s rVSV-based candidate as the most promising because the platform has an established safety record and the candidate has shown protective efficacy against Bundibugyo in published primate studies.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedCEPI says two other Bundibugyo vaccine candidates are already in early human trials, including Moderna’s mRNA-1469 candidate in Canada and the University of Oxford’s ChAdOx1 BDBV candidate.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedWHO and Africa CDC announced that 70,000 doses of Ervebo would go to the DRC, including 20,000 doses for a trial testing whether Ervebo offers any cross-protection against Bundibugyo.View evidenceHide evidence

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