The WHO warns it may take nine months to develop a vaccine for the Bundibugyo Ebola species, as current candidates have yet to undergo clinical trials.

The WHO is investigating potential vaccines and treatments for a potentially lengthy Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been declared an international…

Doctors battling the deadly Bundibugyo strain in DR Congo will likely have to wait months for a vaccine.

The response to the current wave of the disease, which has caused 139 deaths in central Africa to date, has been hampered by security concerns

The only approved vaccines for Ebola target the Zaire strain.

The WHO warns it may take nine months to develop a vaccine for the Bundibugyo Ebola species, as current candidates have yet to undergo clinical trials.

The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 50 percent and no approved vaccine as yet.

The vaccine is being developed from the same technology as the Covid immunisation

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