Science Alert May 17, 2018
The largest of Ebola outbreaks took place in West Africa from 2014 through 2016 killing 11,310. The world is once again on the brink of another Ebola outbreak, this time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This time health officials have another, far more proactive weapon in the fight against Ebola: an experimental vaccine known as Merck’s rVSV-ZEBOV, or V920. The first batch of 4,000 Ebola vaccine doses arrived in the DRC capital of Kinshasa. More doses should follow, according to the WHO… read more.
Ambulance depot in Sierra Leone in 2014. (UNMEER/Martine Perret/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)