The Director -General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gebrisos, announced that the Ebola vaccine experience in Uganda started yesterday, Monday, less than a week after the authorities in the African state announced the spread of the epidemic.
“This vaccine experience was launched in record time,” said Gebrisos on the X platform. He explained that this experience targets “people with the disease and their mixes”, and pointed out that it is “a first experience to assess the clinical effectiveness of the vaccine against the Ebola virus disease, Sudan.”
He added, “This experience shows the importance of investing in research related to vaccines and treatments, and preparing to respond to epidemics.”
On January 30th, the Ugandan authorities announced the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital, Kampala, where the disease was killed a nurse who was working in the National Hospital of Molgo, according to the Ugandan health authorities.
“The World Health Organization will continue to support the government in the global response to control,” said Gebrisos on Monday.
The disease has six different strains, three of which caused (Bondibogio, Sudan, and Zayer) in the occurrence of epidemics that spread widely. In all its strains, this virus has caused the death of more than 15,000 people in Africa since 1976. There is currently no vaccine against the Ebola virus of Sudan.