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‘Make Ebola a thing of the past’: first vaccine against deadly virus approved

The drug, which has already been given to hundreds of thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, can now be distributed more widely.
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The world finally has an Ebola vaccine. On 11 November, European regulators approved a vaccine that has already helped to control deadly outbreaks of the virus — the first time any immunization against Ebola has passed this hurdle.

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Nature 575, 425-426 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03490-8

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  • Update 13 November 2019: This story has been updated to note that the World Health Organization has ‘prequalified’ the Merck vaccine.

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