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VSV-EBOV or rVSV-ZEBOV, sold under the brand name Ervebo, is a vaccine based on the vesicular stomatitis virus which was genetically modified to express a surface glycoprotein of Zaire Ebola virus. [ 16][ 17] In November 2019, the European Commission granted a conditional marketing authorization. [ 18]
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 ...
GamEvac-Combi (Russian: ГамЭвак-Комби) is a heterologous VSV- and Ad5-vectored Ebola vaccine. There is also a version called GamEvac which is a homologous Ad5-vectored vaccine. [1] GamEvac-Combi was developed by Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. As of 2015 the vaccine has been licensed in Russia for ...
The vaccine, developed by the pharmaceutical giant Merck, is known as Ervebo. It's the first human Ebola vaccine to be approved by the EU. Ervebo was first engineered by the Public Health Agency ...
A month ago the European Union issued marketing authorization for a vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus in adults, and now the FDA has approved it. While noting that Ebola cases in the US have been ...
In May 2017, the Institute announced that it would deliver 1,000 doses of its vaccine candidate, GamEvac-Combi, [8] to Guinea for Ebola testing. According to a Xinhua report, it was considered to be an approved Ebola vaccine, [9] although GamEvac-Combi was licensed only in Russia, and did not have a multinational license approved by the World Health Organization, as of November 2019.
Vaccine. There is a vaccine to prevent Ebola—the FDA approved the Ebola vaccine rVSV-ZEBOV, aka Ervebo, in late 2019. However, the vaccine only targets Zaire ebolavirus, which has caused the ...
This was the most severe Ebola outbreak in recorded history in regards to both the number of human cases and fatalities. It began in Guéckédou , Guinea, in December 2013 and spread abroad. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 33 ] Flare-ups of the disease continued into 2016, [ 39 ] and the outbreak was declared over on 9 June 2016.