Category: ervebo

FDA issues its first approval for an Ebola vaccine

Post author By Randall
Post date December 19, 2019
Categories In ebola, ervebo, fda, medicine, merck, Tech, vaccine

[ad_1] A month ago the European Union issued marketing authorization for a vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus in adults, and now the FDA has approved it. While noting that Ebola cases in the US have been very rare, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Peter Marks said in a statement […]

The EU just approved a vaccine to prevent Ebola

Post author By Randall
Post date November 11, 2019
Categories In approved, conditional approval, congo, ebola, ervebo, eu, european commission, european union, medicine, merck, outbreak, Politics, Public Health, Tech, tomorrow, vaccine, virus, world health organization

[ad_1] Ervebo was first engineered by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the US Army more than a decade ago. In 2014, following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Merck acquired the rights to develop the vaccine. The “conditional marketing authorization” is a type of approval reserved for medicine that addresses unmet medical needs. […]