{"id":85287,"date":"2019-07-21T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2019-07-21T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:50:14","slug":"ebola-vaccine-tested-during-epidemic-saves-lives-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ebola-vaccine-tested-during-epidemic-saves-lives-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola vaccine tested during epidemic saves lives in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The World Health Organization(WHO) has suggested that Merck&#8217;s vaccine (VSV-EBOV) used during the current outbreaks in Congo was 97.5% efficacious in preventing Ebola infection.<\/li><li>Recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus\u2013Zaire Ebola virus (<strong>VSV-EBOV<\/strong>) is an experimental vaccine for protection against Ebola virus disease.<\/li><li>When VSV-EBOV is injected,the vaccinated individuals generates antibodies against EBOV protein,thereby gaining immunity.<\/li><li>The vaccine was developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada and licensed to NewLink Genetics.<\/li><li>In November 2014,Merck entered into a licensing agreement with NewLink Genetics to research,develop,manufacture and distribute the vaccine.<\/li><li>Ebola virus disease(EVD) formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe often fatal illness in humans.The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization(WHO) has suggested that Merck&#8217;s vaccine (VSV-EBOV) used during the current outbreaks in Congo was 97.5% efficacious in preventing Ebola infection. Recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus\u2013Zaire Ebola virus (VSV-EBOV) is an experimental vaccine for protection against Ebola virus disease. When VSV-EBOV is injected,the vaccinated individuals generates antibodies against EBOV protein,thereby gaining immunity. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ebola-vaccine-tested-during-epidemic-saves-lives-in-congo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ebola vaccine tested during epidemic saves lives in Congo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2546,2547,1089],"class_list":["post-85287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-congo","tag-ebola-vaccine","tag-who","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704863389},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}