Janssen’s Ebola Vaccine Added To Fight Against African Outbreak

People at risk of contracting the Ebola virus in the latest outbreak in the Democractic Republic of Congo are to have another vaccination option in the form of Janssen’s experimental prime-boost vaccine regimen, Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN.

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A second vaccine is to be used in the lastest Ebola outbreak in the DRC • Source: Shutterstock

A second experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus is to be introduced in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is currently experiencing the world’s second-largest Ebola outbreak on record, with more than 2,000 lives lost and some 3,000 infections confirmed since the latest epidemic was declared in August last year.

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