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VSV-ZEBOV was originally developed by Canada’s public health agency before being licensed to NewLink Genetics, which then signed a deal handing Merck the responsibility to research, develop, manufacture and distribute it.

She said that the “good news” was in spite of the fact that more conclusive evidence was needed to ascertain the effectiveness of the new vaccine.

A vaccine for the Ebola virus – the first of its kind in the disease’s 40-year recorded history – shows promise in trials in Guinea, according to a report released Friday in the medical journal Lancet.

A new Ebola vaccine is being called “highly effective” following a small study in Guinea, West Africa.

Those involved in funding the trial called it a “remarkable” result and said the co-operation between organisations and countries that allowed it to come about augured well for future outbreaks of unsafe viruses.

“The “ring” vaccination method adopted for the vaccine trial is based on the smallpox eradication strategy”, John-Arne Røttingen, M.D., Ph.D., director of the division of infectious disease control at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and chair of...

In the previous week to July 26, the two countries had seven confirmed cases, which was the lowest in the past year up until then, according to the WHO. “So they have got almost 600 people quarantined around a single case”, Aylward said, pointing to “massive...

WHO’s announcement said while the vaccine has shown 100 percent efficacy in individuals, “more conclusive evidence is needed on its capacity to protect populations through what is called ‘herd immunity.’ To that end, the Guinean national regulatory...

At this point no country would consider vaccinating all its children against Ebola, for example.

Cassius Kollie is one of four people being treated for Ebola at a specialised treatment unit in the ELWA hospital in Monrovia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said the genetic sequence of the virus sampled from the 17-year-old victim at the centre of the first cases for three months did not match variants circulating in neighbouring Guinea or Sierra Leone.

More than 11,200 people have died from Ebola since an epidemic broke out in December 2013 in neighbouring Guinea.

Another €8 million will be given to all countries affected by Ebola for multi-country projects. Many major economic sectors have been affected: agriculture, mining, trade, tourism, transport, fisheries and livestock. The functioning of schools, hospitals and other public...

Liberia’s last confirmed case, in March, was also suspected to be linked to sexual transmission, because the virus isolated from that patient, Ruth Tugbah, who died, closely matched that detected in the semen of her boyfriend, who had recovered from Ebola months before she...

Speaking at the UN Secretary General’s global Conference on Ebola Recovery in New York, Justine Greening announced a new 2 year package to support the government of Sierra Leone in its plan to recover from the outbreak.