{"id":4385,"date":"2019-08-06T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"uganda-begins-trial-of-ebola-vaccine-health-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/06\/uganda-begins-trial-of-ebola-vaccine-health-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Begins Trial of Ebola Vaccine: Health Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda said Monday it had started\na trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine that may be used in neighboring\nDemocratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak has killed more than 1,800\npeople.<br>\nThe trial of the MVA-BN vaccine developed by Johnson&amp;Johnson is expected to\nlast two years, Uganda&#8217;s Medical Research Council (MRC) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vaccine will be administered\nto up to 800 health professionals and frontline workers such as cleaners,\nambulance personnel and mortuary and burial teams, in the western district of\nMbarara, the MRC said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VACCINATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MRC spokeswoman Pamela Nabukenya\nWairagala said vaccinations had already begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MRC said the trial would be\nled by Ugandan researchers and supported by the London School of Hygiene and\nTropical Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present there is no licenced\ndrug to prevent or treat Ebola although a range of experimental drugs are in\ndevelopment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congo outbreak is the first\ntime that a vaccine has been used as a full-scale weapon against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health authorities have been\nissuing the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, developed by US pharma group Merck &#8212; a product\nthat has yet to be licenced but has been shown to be safe and effective. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Uganda-begins-trial-of-Ebola-vaccine\/3073694-5224678-12t9essz\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Uganda said Monday it had started a trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine that may be used in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak has killed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}