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The World Health Organization (WHO) is advancing preparations to start “as soon as possible” clinical trials of vaccines and treatments for Marburg disease following the recent outbreak in Tanzania, the first in that country.
An outbreak of this highly contagious viral hemorrhagic fever, from the same family as Ebola, was detected in Equatorial Guinea last February with nine confirmed cases, including five deaths.
” WHO reviewed the evidence for four (candidate) vaccines. The test reports are ready, and our partners are equally ready to support these tests,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the organization, told reporters.
Trials in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea
Vaccine trials are expected marburg virus are being carried out in the two affected countries, the person in charge added.
Tedros commented that while Equatorial Guinea claims the total number of cases is nine, they occurred in three provinces 150 kilometers apart, indicating that marburg virus it may have been transmitted beyond what was reported.
In this sense, he added that WHO has information indicating additional cases, so he asked the government to officially report them.
Expert WHOAna Maria Henao-Restrepo, explained that manufacturers of candidate vaccines against marburg virus They have several hundred doses, which will be enough for the first phase of a planned clinical trial to vaccinate all contacts of confirmed cases in a kind of “circle”.
This methodology of vaccinating 20 to 50 people around each patient will document the level of vaccine effectiveness, Henao-Restrepo said.
(As reported by EFE)
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