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Russia has developed a vaccine to cure the Ebola fever, which has demonstrated 100% effectiveness during tests on primates, according to the Russian healthcare minister

 

SOCHI, October 23. /TASS/. Russia has developed a new vaccine against the Ebola virus and is ready to supply it to Africa after the vaccine is registered, Russian Healthcare Minister Veronika Skvortsova said on Wednesday during a session of the Russia-Africa Economic Forum.

 

"Besides prevention methods, Russia has developed a unique vaccine to cure the Ebola fever, which has demonstrated 100% effectiveness during tests on primates. Its clinical research is currently being finalized. After this vaccine is registered, Russia will be ready to supply it to African countries," Skvortsova stated.

 

The minister added that Russia had developed a "dry" form of the vaccine against Ebola, which can be stored in "a regular domestic fridge," taking into account the climate conditions of African states.

 

The first case of Ebola was registered in 1976 in Zaire, (currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo), in a settlement on the bank of the Ebola River, which gave the disease its name. The viral disease caused by the Ebola virus has a very high death rate. The Ebola epidemic has killed thousands of African residents in the past several years.

 

The latest major outbreak of Ebola was seen in December 2013 in Guinea, quickly spreading to neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia. Cases of Ebola were registered in Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Spain, the UK, Italy and the US. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), since the start of the epidemic, over 11,000 people died and over 28,500 were infected. In 2017-2018, the first stage of using the Russian vaccine in Guinea took place, with 2,000 people vaccinated.

 

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Seems they aren't the only ones to develop an Ebola vaccine...

The world finally has an approved vaccine against Ebola

The WHO wasted no time to "prequalifying" the newly approved vaccine.

A nurse in PPE administers a shot to a man in an outdoor clinic.
Enlarge / A man receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse outside the Afia Himbi Health Center on July 15, 2019, in Goma.

Regulators in Europe have granted the world's first approval of a vaccine against Ebola—and health officials are wasting no time in rolling it out.

 

The European Commission announced at the start of the week that it had granted a landmark marketing authorization of Merck's Ebola vaccine Ervebo. The vaccine has been in the works since the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak. It is now being used in the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo based on a "compassionate use" protocol.

 

The current outbreak in the DRC has killed nearly 2,200 since August 2018, causing nearly 3,300 cases. The outbreak is the second-largest recorded, surpassed only by the 2014 West African outbreak that caused more than 11,000 deaths and 28,000 cases.

 

Preliminary vaccine data from the current DRC outbreak suggested that Ervebo is 97.5% effective at preventing the devastating viral disease. It protected well over 90,000 people in the outbreak.

 

The vaccine protects against one of four species of Ebola known to infect humans—the Zaire ebolavirus species. Zaire is responsible for the current outbreak in the DRC, as well as the 2014 West African outbreak, and nearly all other outbreaks recorded since Ebola was first discovered in 1976.

 

"Finding a vaccine as soon as possible against this terrible virus has been a priority for the international community ever since Ebola hit West Africa five years ago," European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said in a statement Sunday, November 10. "Today's decision is therefore a major step forward in saving lives in Africa and beyond."

 

The vaccine was initially developed by researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory, which subsequently licensed it to NewLink Genetics Corporation. Merck obtained the license in 2014 amid the West African outbreak and developed it further.

 

The company celebrated the vaccine's approval Monday.

 

"It is a historic milestone and a testament to the power of science, innovation and public-private partnership," Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier said in a statement. "After recognizing the need and urgency for an Ebola Zaire vaccine, many came together across sectors to answer the global call for outbreak preparedness. We at Merck are honored to play a part in Ebola outbreak response efforts and we remain committed to our partners and the people we serve."

 

The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to make an approval decision on the vaccine in March 2020.

 

In the meantime, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday, November 12 that it has "prequalified" Ervebo, signaling to member countries that the vaccine meets WHO standards for safety, quality, and effectiveness. In an announcement, the WHO noted that it was "the fastest vaccine prequalification process ever conducted by WHO" and came less than 48 hours after the European Commission approved the vaccine. The organization said it is also working to facilitate licensing in countries at risk of Ebola outbreaks.

 

"[Prequalification] is a historic step towards ensuring the people who most need it are able to access this life-saving vaccine," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the announcement. "Five years ago, we had no vaccine and no therapeutics for Ebola. With a prequalified vaccine and experimental therapeutics, Ebola is now preventable and treatable."

 

 

Source: The world finally has an approved vaccine against Ebola (Ars Technica)  

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On 11/12/2019 at 10:14 AM, dufus said:

Russia has developed a vaccine to cure the Ebola fever, which has demonstrated 100% effectiveness during tests on primates, according to the Russian healthcare minister

 

Great news but it's not clear if this means that this vaccine protects against ALL the species of Ebola known to infect humans. Not even is clear if it has been actually tested on humans, a basic requirement to certiicate that vaccines used in immunization programmes are safe and effective and vaccine efficacy data and studies are relevant to the target population. Just guess  they mean the GamEvakCombi anti-Ebola vaccine used in Guinea.

 

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as long as lives are saved it matters not who, where, or why...just do it!

@Russia :win: and all other care giving nations and peoples!

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17 hours ago, Karlston said:

Regulators in Europe have granted the world's first approval of a vaccine against Ebola—and health officials are wasting no time in rolling it out.

Let's try to save people. Maybe something is working after more than 40 years.

 

17 hours ago, Karlston said:

The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to make an approval decision on the vaccine in March 2020.

Let's wait for some more people to die.

 

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