{"id":87482,"date":"2019-02-06T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/ebola-vaccinations-expanding-in-central-africa"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:25:13","slug":"ebola-vaccinations-expanding-in-central-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/ebola-vaccinations-expanding-in-central-africa","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Vaccinations Expanding in Central Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ebola-vaccinations-expanding-in-central-africa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The African country of South Sudan has started vaccinating front-line response staff with the Ebola Zaire vaccine candidate v920.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine\u2019s producer, Merck, has given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afro.who.int\/news\/south-sudan-vaccinates-health-workers-against-ebola\" target=\"_blank\">2,160 doses of the vaccine<\/a> candidate V920 (rVSV-ZEBOV) as part of preparedness measures to fight the spread of the Ebola disease, said the World Health Organization (WHO) in a press release on January 28, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This preventive effort is in reaction to South Sudan\u2019s neighboring country the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is now experiencing its 10th Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/v920-ebola-vaccine-now-deployed-drc-uganda-and-south-sudan\">https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/v920-ebola-vaccine-now...outh-sudan<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African country of South Sudan has started vaccinating front-line response staff with the Ebola Zaire vaccine candidate v920. The vaccine\u2019s producer, Merck, has given 2,160 doses of the vaccine candidate V920 (rVSV-ZEBOV) as part of preparedness measures to fight the spread of the Ebola disease, said the World Health Organization (WHO) in a press [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}