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RE: Congratulations DR Congo! Today you reached 42 days since the last case of Ebola, signaling the end of the outbreak
Thanks for delivering this good news. I'm happy you take a special interest in tropical diseases, and I hope you find a sense of fulfilment in making others happy.
I went through your previous posts to find the "snappy" name of the ebola vaccine-rVSV-ZEBOV. Do you know what phase of the clinical trial the drug is currently in?
Also do well to let me know when it gets a less snappy name....lol.
A big thanks for sponsoring me into SBI.
I'm guessing the vaccine is in phase 4 (sort of). It's a little weird with this one. Most of the early work was done around 20 years ago, when the 2014/15 pandemic hit they went into trialling it. It was used extensively in this outbreak as a control stratagem, my guess is that will continue to be the way it's used, I'd be surprised if it ended up being a stranded vaccine like measles.
No problem, its a win/win!
I guess we'll have to wait another 10 to 20 years...