DRC declares Ebola outbreak over due to vaccine
The outbreak was contained using Merck’s Ebola vaccine, which was given to more than 1,600 of the patients’ contacts
03 May 2021 - 13:05
Kinshasa — The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them.
The outbreak was contained using Merck’s Ebola vaccine, which was given to more than 1,600 of the patients’ contacts and contacts of contacts, according to the aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
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