Inside STAT: Ebola vaccine supplies expected to last

NURSES WORKING WITH THE WHO PREPARE TO ADMINISTER VACCINES IN MBANDAKA IN DRC. (UNIOR D. KANNAH/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Good news in the Ebola response effort: The WHO now predicts there’s enough doses of an experimental vaccine to control the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “I believe we will have enough vaccine to stop this outbreak unless something very dramatic changes,” says Dr. Peter Salama, WHO’s deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response. The vaccine is still being tested in a clinical trial, but early evidence suggests it’s working. Salama said the data the WHO has gathered in North Kivu — where more than 60,000 doses have been administered — point to the vaccine being “highly, highly efficacious.” STAT’s Helen Branswell the story here.