{"id":98513,"date":"2019-11-14T00:53:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/ebola-vaccine-approved-in-europe-in-landmark-moment-for-global-health"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:53:36","slug":"ebola-vaccine-approved-in-europe-in-landmark-moment-for-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/ebola-vaccine-approved-in-europe-in-landmark-moment-for-global-health","title":{"rendered":"Ebola vaccine approved in Europe, in landmark moment for global health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ebola-vaccine-approved-in-europe-in-landmark-moment-for-global-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After more than two decades of research, the world finally has an approved Ebola vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission granted marketing authorization to Merck\u2019s vaccine, known as Ervebo, on Monday, less than a month after the European Medicines Agency recommended it be licensed. It is currently being used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under a \u201ccompassionate use\u201d or research protocol similar to a clinical trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European Commission\u2019s marketing authorization of Ervebo is the result of an unprecedented collaboration for which the entire world should be proud,\u201d Ken Frazier, Merck\u2019s chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than two decades of research, the world finally has an approved Ebola vaccine. The European Commission granted marketing authorization to Merck\u2019s vaccine, known as Ervebo, on Monday, less than a month after the European Medicines Agency recommended it be licensed. It is currently being used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98513","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=98513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}