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Ebola: Africa CDC plans to use vaccine for different strain as outbreak spreads

Published by DW (English) By Mark Hallam · 7 August 2026 at 00:12
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Ebola: Africa CDC plans to use vaccine for different strain as outbreak spreads
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The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control pledged to deploy a vaccine for a previous Ebola strain in the current DRC outbreak, with test cases indicated a potentially live-saving level of protection. African health authorities say they would start us…

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