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Unicef staff and airport workers receive an aircraft carrying medical supplies as authorities and aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain at Bunia National Airport in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/File Photo

Infectious Diseases

Deadliest Ebola outbreak in Congo gets 70k Merck vaccine boost

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A health worker is dressed up in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Centre as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Infectious Diseases

CEPI's $60m speeds up race to develop Ebola Bundibugyo vaccine

Jennifer Rigby, Mariam Sunny and Julie Steenhuysen 2 Jun 2026

Source: Supplied. Rose Leke, chair of Gavi's IRC.

Healthcare

Gavi appoints Rose Leke as IRC chair

8 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Ebola vaccine candidates arrive in Uganda for trials

8 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.

Emergency Medicine

Merck to donate Ebola vaccine candidate for research programme in Uganda

Leroy Leo 25 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Serum Institute to produce Ebola vaccine for use in Uganda outbreak

Aaron Ross 17 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied. ©Gates Archive/Sylvain Cherkaoui.

Covid-19

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome pledge $300m to combat Covid-19

21 Jan 2022

Not your grandmother’s vaccine.
Maria Croyle, CC BY-ND

Pharmaceuticals

Vaccines without needles - new shelf-stable film could revolutionise how medicines are distributed worldwide

Maria Croyle 6 Mar 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah

Infectious Diseases

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 Mar 2020

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE

Public Health

Ebola one year on: the wins, the setbacks, and the way forward

Shirin Ashraf & Emma Thomson 30 Sep 2019

A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
EPA-EFE/STR

Infectious Diseases

The Uganda vaccine trial: how African researchers are tackling Ebola

Yap Boum 8 Aug 2019

Health workers burying a child who died of Ebola in the DRC’s North Kivu province. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA

Infectious Diseases

Radical ideas are needed to break the DRC's Ebola outbreak. Here are some

Mosoka Fallah 23 May 2019

There is currently no established cure for Ebola – could antibody treatments be the answer? AHMED JALLANZO/EPA

Infectious Diseases

Guinea pigs cured of Ebola with antibodies, raising hopes for treatment in humans

Pramila Rajil & Alain Townsend 4 Apr 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Medical Research

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019

Mali was one of the West African countries affected by the biggest Ebola outbreak ever recorded from 2014 to 2016. Shutterstock

Infectious Diseases

Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes

Shirin Ashraf & Arthur Wickenhagen 11 Feb 2019

Infectious Diseases

Healthworkers vaccinated against Ebola in South Sudan

29 Jan 2019

A portable DNA sequencer in action. UGA CAES/Extension/Flickr

Medtech

DNA sequencing can help fight epidemics - but there are privacy risks

Liam Shaw & Nicola C Sugden 14 Jan 2019

Photo: Shutterstock

Medtech

Cracking the cold chain challenge is key to making vaccines ubiquitous

16 Jul 2018

Ebola outbreak in DRC: Are we better prepared this time?

Public Health

Ebola outbreak in DRC: Are we better prepared this time?

Connor Bamford 14 May 2018

Two experimental Ebola vaccines show promise

Medical Research

Two experimental Ebola vaccines show promise

12 Oct 2017

Ebola vaccine shows results in trial

Medical Research

Ebola vaccine shows results in trial

23 Dec 2016

Infectious Diseases

Human vaccine for Ebola in the pipeline

1 Apr 2008