{"id":8614,"date":"2025-01-29T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:45:17","slug":"ring-vaccination-effective-in-containing-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/29\/ring-vaccination-effective-in-containing-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring vaccination effective in containing Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d44148-025-00024-5\">Nature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Success of targeted vaccination in curbing Ebola outbreaks in DRC, paving the way for future strategies against similar infectious diseases.<\/strong> A new study<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d44148-025-00024-5#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>&nbsp;has highlighted the effectiveness of ring vaccination in containing Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ring vaccination is a public health strategy where close contacts of an exposed person, such as family and friends, are vaccinated to prevent disease spread and has potential for controlling other diseases with similar transmission patterns. The study evaluated ring vaccination as a critical tool in controlling the Ebola outbreak and the approach, targeting close contacts of confirmed cases and their contacts, proved pivotal in rapid, localized containment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study shows that ring vaccination significantly reduced Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases starting 10 days post-vaccination. Most infections occurred within the first nine days before the vaccine\u2019s protective effects fully took hold. By day 10, case numbers dropped sharply, suggesting the vaccine\u2019s efficacy. People vaccinated within eight days of the index case\u2019s symptom onset faced a substantially lower infection risk compared to those vaccinated later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d44148-025-00024-5\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Success of targeted vaccination in curbing Ebola outbreaks in DRC, paving the way for future strategies against similar infectious diseases. A new study1&nbsp;in the&nbsp;New England Journal of Medicine&nbsp;has highlighted the effectiveness of ring vaccination in containing Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ring vaccination is a public health strategy where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebola","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8615,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}