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The European Commission has granted Marketing Authorisation to Janssen for a new Ebola vaccine, developed in partnership with the University of Oxford. The Ebola vaccine has already been deployed in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following recommendation from the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE), and in Rwanda – following conditional approval in 2019 under an ‘exceptional emergency’ – as part of outbreak containment efforts in the region.

Ebola vaccine: taking some vaccine from a vial with a syringe