Kinshasa, Sept. 15 -- Vaccination against the Ebola virus has begun in the Bulape health zone in the central Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where an outbreak was declared earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Sunday.
The ongoing phase of vaccination targets frontline health workers and contacts of confirmed cases, the WHO said in a statement.
An initial batch of 400 doses of the Ervebo vaccine, which protects against the Zaire ebolavirus species behind the current outbreak, has arrived in Bulape, one of the epicenters of the epidemic in Kasai Province. About 45,000 additional doses are expected to be shipped in the coming days, according to the WHO.
Containing the outbreak is possible if appropriat...