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Uganda sees ‘fastest roll-out’ for Ebola vaccine trial: WHO

February 7, 2025
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The World Health Organization’s emergencies director on Friday praised the “fastest roll-out” of an Ebola vaccine trial in the midst of an epidemic, as Uganda responded to its latest outbreak.

The death of a nurse last week marked Uganda’s sixth outbreak of Ebola Sudan, for which there is no approved vaccine. Of the five other Ebola virus species, just one has licensed vaccines.

Mike Ryan, emergencies director for the WHO, spoke to AFP at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Kampala about the trial, which began on Monday.

Q: How confident are you about this vaccine?

A: I believe this is a real step forward. This vaccine is based on the same platform that was used to develop the very effective vaccine for Ebola Zaire, so I believe there’s a real chance that this vaccine will be very effective.

But obviously as is the case with all candidate vaccines, we have to ensure that they are effective. The vaccine has been proven to be safe in safety trials, but again we continue to look at the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.

This vaccine is specifically designed for outbreak situations. We don’t know how long the protection lasts. That’s one of the reasons I’m here today.

This is the first and fastest rollout in my memory of a vaccine in a real epidemic situation. The other first is the virus was sequenced in less than 24 hours by the central public health laboratories here in Uganda and published so quickly. I have never seen a virus sequence done so quickly and shared with the world.

Q: How widely is this being rolled out?

A: There are about 2,400 vaccines in the country. They’re only been given to contacts (of the initial case). This vaccine works by helping to protect a contact from getting sick or getting severely ill so the most important thing is to give the vaccine to people in contact with the case. The general population don’t have to worry. This is a very specific problem. It’s not a major problem for society

Q: Are you concerned about the US withdrawal from the WHO?

A: I’m very sad at the loss of US colleagues in the US collaboration with the World Health Organization but we’ve learned a lot, and the world has moved on too.

Look at here in Uganda, the capability in this country and in many other countries has grown both scientifically in terms of medicine and in terms of operations and logistics. The world is not where it was 20 or 30 years ago.

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Ebola vaccine
Credit: Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pexels

The World Health Organization’s emergencies director on Friday praised the “fastest roll-out” of an Ebola vaccine trial in the midst of an epidemic, as Uganda responded to its latest outbreak.

The death of a nurse last week marked Uganda’s sixth outbreak of Ebola Sudan, for which there is no approved vaccine. Of the five other Ebola virus species, just one has licensed vaccines.

Mike Ryan, emergencies director for the WHO, spoke to AFP at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Kampala about the trial, which began on Monday.

Q: How confident are you about this vaccine?

A: I believe this is a real step forward. This vaccine is based on the same platform that was used to develop the very effective vaccine for Ebola Zaire, so I believe there’s a real chance that this vaccine will be very effective.

But obviously as is the case with all candidate vaccines, we have to ensure that they are effective. The vaccine has been proven to be safe in safety trials, but again we continue to look at the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.

This vaccine is specifically designed for outbreak situations. We don’t know how long the protection lasts. That’s one of the reasons I’m here today.

This is the first and fastest rollout in my memory of a vaccine in a real epidemic situation. The other first is the virus was sequenced in less than 24 hours by the central public health laboratories here in Uganda and published so quickly. I have never seen a virus sequence done so quickly and shared with the world.

Q: How widely is this being rolled out?

A: There are about 2,400 vaccines in the country. They’re only been given to contacts (of the initial case). This vaccine works by helping to protect a contact from getting sick or getting severely ill so the most important thing is to give the vaccine to people in contact with the case. The general population don’t have to worry. This is a very specific problem. It’s not a major problem for society

Q: Are you concerned about the US withdrawal from the WHO?

A: I’m very sad at the loss of US colleagues in the US collaboration with the World Health Organization but we’ve learned a lot, and the world has moved on too.

Look at here in Uganda, the capability in this country and in many other countries has grown both scientifically in terms of medicine and in terms of operations and logistics. The world is not where it was 20 or 30 years ago.

© 2025 AFP

Citation:
Uganda sees ‘fastest roll-out’ for Ebola vaccine trial: WHO (2025, February 7)
retrieved 7 February 2025
from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-uganda-fastest-ebola-vaccine-trial.html

This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no
part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.


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