Ebola: 20,000 vaccine doses to tackle Guinea outbreak

ABSTRACT

Mass immunisation got under way on Tuesday (February 23) after 11,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine landed in the West African country as part of an emergency response to the outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Twitter. Drawing on experience of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), experts believe that the vaccine rollout, which began nine days after the first cases were confirmed, is a crucial part of the emergency response. According to Wolz, if communities are involved in and support the response, the benefit is “huge”.