Congo Begins Ebola Vaccination as Bundibugyo Outbreak Tests Limits of Existing Ebola Vaccine
The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun vaccinating frontline healthcare workers as authorities battle the country’s largest Ebola outbreak on record. The campaign began in Bunia, the epicentre of the outbreak, on September 19, with health workers and other people directly involved in the response receiving the Ervebo vaccine. But there is an unusual problem…