A global consortium led by Adaptvac ApS aims to design and test a new vaccine that could offer broad protection against several filoviruses, including Zaire ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus and Marburg ...

In 2023, he received the prestigious Sabin Vaccine Institute Gold Medal for developing other innovative vaccines for Ebola Zaire, smallpox, Japanese encephalitis, and West Nile virus, among others.

While outbreaks of the virus are still considered rare, the most recent cases were also identified in Uganda in 2022, where the Sudan strain claimed 77 lives after infecting 164 people. The World ...

02/06/2025February 6, 2025 Discovered in 1976, Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are underway.

Ebola is a terrifying virus which, if left untreated, causes bleeding inside the body and through the eyes, nose, mouth and rectum.

The Zaire Ebola virus is the deadliest, with a mortality rate of 90 percent. It is the strain currently spreading through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and beyond.

SK bioscience, Hilleman Labs enter joint development of second-generation Zaire Ebola virus vaccineEbola virus disease (EVD) is a rapidly progressive, severe and transmissible haemorrhagic illness ...

SK bioscience and Hilleman will acquire capabilities and knowledge for using the recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus vector technology platform to develop vaccines for treating viral infectious ...

Study: Randomized Trial of Vaccines for Zaire Ebola Virus Disease. Image Credit: javirozas / Shutterstock.com Additionally, they assessed how quickly and robustly these vaccines elicited antibody ...

Vaccines While most previous Ebola outbreaks have been with the Zaire virus, Uganda has been hit with the Sudan Ebola strain. There are two vaccines for Zaire Ebola, but none for the Sudan strain ...

Using a Zaire vaccine against the Sudan virus isn’t an option, says Pontiano Kaleebu, director of the Uganda Virus Research Institute. “This has already been proven in the laboratory.