Beyza Binnur Donmez<\/p>\n
07 August 2026\u2022Update: 07 August 2026<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization (WHO) experts on Friday recommended prioritizing the licensed Ebola vaccine Ervebo for evaluation in a randomized clinical trial amid the ongoing Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n
The WHO said in a statement that its Technical Advisory Group on candidate vaccine prioritization made the recommendation after reviewing new preliminary data showing that Ervebo offered “some level of cross-protection” against Bundibugyo virus disease in animal studies, particularly against death.<\/p>\n
Ervebo is the only licensed Ebola vaccine, but it is approved against Ebola virus disease caused by the Zaire ebolavirus rather than Bundibugyo virus.<\/p>\n
The advisory group found “no safety concerns” with potentially using the vaccine during a Bundibugyo outbreak in a trial in which contacts of cases are vaccinated.<\/p>\n
The experts, however, stressed that Ervebo’s effectiveness against Bundibugyo disease and transmission still needs to be demonstrated through research.<\/p>\n
They said a vaccine specifically targeting Bundibugyo would remain the preferred option, though preliminary data on candidate vaccines are not yet available.<\/p>\n
The WHO convened its advisory groups after declaring the Congo outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on May 16. On July 31, the members of the advisory group met for the third time to review new data.<\/p>\n
The group had previously recommended that Ervebo not be used outside carefully designed research settings until its performance against Bundibugyo virus could be assessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyza Binnur Donmez 07 August 2026\u2022Update: 07 August 2026 The World Health Organization (WHO) experts on Friday recommended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,174472],"class_list":["post-586234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}