Efforts to halt an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo have made"significant progress", with the virus now contained to a far smaller and mainly rural area, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
At the height of the latest outbreak, 207"health zones" were affected by Ebola, a figure that now stands at only 27, Ryan said."The fact that it is a smaller space is positive, but ... the disease has moved into more rural and more insecure areas," he warned. And DRC is preparing to begin introducing a second experimental Ebola vaccine, produced by Johnson & Johnson, to protect those living outside of direct transmission zones.
The WHO has used a"ring" vaccination approach with the Merck jab, providing it only to the circle of people known to have been in contact with Ebola patients, and their known contacts.