“This vaccine is based on the same platform that was used to develop the very effective vaccine for Ebola Zaire, so I believe there’s a real chance that this vaccine will be very effective ...

The strain of Ebola that has circulated in West Africa for the last year ... infected three cynomolgus macaques with the 1976 Mayinga strain and another three with the 2014 Makona strain. Both groups ...

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...

Discovered in 1976, Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are underway. https://p.dw ...

Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo ...

Existing Ebola Zaire vaccines are not cross-protective for Ebola Sudan. Mark Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D., IAVI president and CEO, said: "IAVI is grateful for the efforts that the WHO, the Ugandan ...