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Ebola vaccines are vaccines either approved or in development to prevent Ebola. As of 2022, there are only vaccines against the Zaire ebolavirus. The first vaccine to be approved in the United States was rVSV-ZEBOV in December 2019. [9] [10] It had been used extensively in the Kivu Ebola epidemic under a compassionate use protocol. [11]
In January 2014, Tekmira started a Phase I clinical trial of TKM-Ebola to assess its safety in healthy people with a dose of 0.24 mg/kg/day for seven day treatments. The FDA placed the trial on clinical hold in July 2014 to assess results, after some subjects had flu-like responses. [ 6 ]
The CDC recommends three flu vaccines for people 65 and older: the Fluzone High-Dose inactivated flu vaccine, the Flublok recombinant flu vaccine and the Fluad adjuvanted inactivated flu vaccine.
The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Ebola: How a vaccine turned a terrifying virus into a preventable disease Skip to ...
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while "any vaccine can cause side effects", [11] most side effects are minor, primarily including sore arms or a mild fever. [11] Unlike most medical interventions vaccines are given to healthy people, where the risk of side effects is not as easily outweighed by the benefit of ...
Having side effects after getting a COVID-19 vaccine are a sign that your immune system is responding, experts say.
In April 2019, following a large-scale ring-vaccination scheme in the DRC outbreak, the WHO published the preliminary results of its research, in association with the DRC's Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale, into the effectiveness of the ring vaccination program, stating that the rVSV-ZEBOV-GP vaccine had been 97.5% effective at stopping Ebola transmission, relative to no ...
A stockpile of half-a-million Ebola vaccine doses was established by Gavi and other global health partners in 2019 for use in outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever, which has an average fatality rate of ...