Financial Times: Congo to test experimental Ebola vaccine as disease re-emerges
“Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are preparing to use an experimental vaccine to help fight an outbreak of Ebola, in what could be an important step towards getting regulatory approval for the world’s first vaccine against the deadly virus. The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that there were 43 suspected cases of Ebola in the remote northern Bas Ulele province of Congo, with four deaths and two laboratory-confirmed cases. More confirmed cases were likely, it said…” (Pilling, 5/23).