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China celebrates medical breakthrough with new Ebola vaccine

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Published on: June 15, 2023

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Women walk past a slogan painted on a wall reading "Stop Ebola" in Monrovia on August 31, 2014. Liberia on August 30, 2014 said it would deny permission for any crew to disembark from ships at the country's four seaports until the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa was under control. AFP PHOTO/DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) — Women walk past a slogan painted on a wall reading “Stop Ebola” in Monrovia on August 31, 2014. (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

China has recorded a major medical breakthrough with its domestically developed Ebola vaccine.

The vaccine has been developed by the country’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences. And has now been granted permission to be tested in overseas clinical trials.

Preliminary results show that a single shot can produce antibodies against the Ebola virus 14 days after innoculation, reaching peak resistance at 28 days. The vaccine specifically targets the strain of the virus that hit West Africa in 2014. Ebola is a haemorragic virus which is deadly if not treated.