{"id":27672,"date":"2019-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/first-ebola-vaccine-approved-by-european-commission\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"first-ebola-vaccine-approved-by-european-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/first-ebola-vaccine-approved-by-european-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ebola Vaccine Approved by European Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Vaccine being used in &#8216;compassionate use&#8217; capacity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The world&#8217;s first Ebola vaccine has been approved by the European Commission, and it was quickly prequalified by the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The Ervebo vaccine is made by Merck and is being used in a &#8220;compassionate use&#8221; capacity in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, site of the second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, <i>ABC News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO&#8217;s prequalification of the vaccine means that it meets the agency&#8217;s quality, safety, and efficacy standards. The vaccine&#8217;s approval is &#8220;a historic step,&#8221; according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, <i>ABC News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five years ago, we had no vaccine and no therapeutics for Ebola,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;With a prequalified vaccine and experimental therapeutics, Ebola is now preventable and treatable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/ervebo-approved-1st-ebola-vaccine\/story?id=66973660\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>ABC News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccine being used in &#8216;compassionate use&#8217; capacity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-27672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}