The European Medicines Agency has approved a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus disease. The vaccine has already been administered to hundreds of thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and saved countless lives during a continuing epidemic. From nature:
The decision of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to allow the US pharmaceutical company Merck to commercialize its vaccine means that the product can now be stored, and possibly distributed, particularly in Africa. In 2015, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – a global health partnership that finances vaccine supply in low-income countries – told Ebola vaccine manufacturers that they would commit to buying vaccines once they were approved by a "rigorous health authority" like the one EMA …
"This is a vaccine with great potential," said Seth Berkley, managing director of Gavi in Geneva, Switzerland, in a press release after the EMA decision. "It has already been used to protect more than 250,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and could be a serious Ebola outbreak in the past."
Image: "Ebola Virus Virion" by CDC / Cynthia Goldsmith (Public Domain) [19659005] <! –
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