{"id":120470,"date":"2026-08-22T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=120470"},"modified":"2026-08-22T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:52:22","slug":"ervebo-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ervebo-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ervebo Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ervebo Vaccine Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the World Health Organisation and its partners said that Congo will receive 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ervebo Vaccine<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is licensed for use against the <\/span><b>Ebola virus disease.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>replication-competent, live, attenuated recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (VSV) vaccine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Working<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vaccine only contains one protein from the Zaire Ebola virus and <\/span><b>cannot cause Ebola virus disease.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a person receives the vaccine, it triggers an immune response against this viral protein.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Administration:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is indicated for active immunization <\/span><b>of individuals 1 year of age<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or older to protect against Ebola Virus Disease.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>manufactured by Merck.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>does not provide protection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against other species of <\/span><b>orthoebolaviruses or orthomarburgviruses.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Ebola<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a severe and often <\/span><b>deadly viral disease<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> caused by a group of viruses known as <\/span><b>orthoebolaviruses (formerly ebolavirus).<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>severe contagious disease<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> affecting humans and non-human primates.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ebola, <\/span><b>first identified in 1976<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, primarily affects remote villages in Central and West Africa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is known as a <\/span><b>hemorrhagic fever virus because<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it can cause problems with the clotting system of the body and lead to internal bleeding as blood leaks from small blood vessels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Transmission<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The virus is <\/span><b>transmitted to people from wild<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> animals (such as fruit bats, porcupines, and non-human primates).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It then <\/span><b>spreads in the human population<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through direct contact with the <\/span><b>blood, secretions, organs, or other bodily fluids<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of infected people and with surfaces and materials contaminated with these fluids.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ebola <\/span><b>cannot be transmitted by air.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Symptoms<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Incubation period:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Typically 5 to 15 days; range is 2 to 21 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, vomiting, bleeding, and often, death.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/congo-ebola-outbreak-who-sends-70000-ervebo-vaccine-doses-ptag-2975884-2026-08-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ervebo Vaccine is licensed for use against the Ebola virus disease. 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