{"id":824562,"date":"2026-07-26T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824562\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:35:09","slug":"oxford-vaccinates-first-volunteer-in-bundibugyo-ebola-vaccine-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824562\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford vaccinates first volunteer in Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Oxford has announced that the first volunteer has received the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine candidate in a first-in-human clinical trial of a vaccine against Bundibugyo ebolavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone came just weeks after the BD-Ebov study began.<\/p>\n<p>The research team will continue recruiting and vaccinating more volunteers and will monitor safety and immune responses over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>DRC reports 2,905 confirmed Ebola cases<\/p>\n<p>Data reported by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday (July 23, 2026), covering figures through Wednesday (July 22, 2026), showed 2,905 confirmed Ebola cases.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, 1,269 people had died, 519 had recovered, and another 722 remained in isolation and under treatment.<\/p>\n<p>However, the sharp increase in the cumulative total did not represent new infections alone.<\/p>\n<p>It partly resulted from a review and adjustment of patient records from Ituri and North Kivu to align them with the national database, bringing previously unrecorded cases into the total.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785054909_284_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Oxford vaccinates first volunteer in Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine trial\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Oxford has announced that the first volunteer has received the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine candidate in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,84608,137,31397,29526,4886,18570],"class_list":["post-824562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-oxford","tag-recruits","tag-vaccine","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}