The study looked at vaccines deployed during outbreaks of five deadly diseases.

Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced deaths from such illnesses by nearly 60 percent, according to a new study.

The life-saving impact of global vaccine stockpiles to address outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases has been ...

The vaccines are intended to be developed for use against Marburg virus and Sudan ebolavirus, two hemorrhagic fevers in the ...

Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, ...

Ebola vaccine cuts fatality even in people who were infected before the jab, new study shows. By Helen Branswell Feb. 12, 2024. Reprints. A new study shows that in addition to preventing ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

Ebola is one of the most feared infectious diseases, with more than half of those infected dying. A vaccine has now been shown to cut that mortality rate in half.

Ervebo, an Ebola vaccine, is neither experimental, nor contains the Ebola virus. A different virus used in the vaccine, vesicular stomatitis, can shed. Denver health care workers who received the ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

The vaccine was deployed during the 2018-2020 Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo under emergency use authorisation.. This allows a medical product to be used without being ...