{"id":8749,"date":"2025-02-18T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:58:03","slug":"ebola-virus-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/18\/ebola-virus-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Virus Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the first day of President Trump’s second term, he signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from\u00a0the World Health Organization<\/a>\u00a0(WHO). In an ironic twist of fate just 10 days later, a\u00a032-year-old Ugandan nurse<\/a>\u00a0had a positive post-mortem test for a deadly\u00a0filovirus<\/a>. But unlike Ebola Zaire virus, its close viral kin, this man’s killer — the so-called Sudan virus (SV) — had no approved treatments or vaccines. By Feb. 4, Uganda identified\u00a0298 close contacts<\/a>\u00a0of the deceased nurse, including six other people who tested positive. Around the same time, WHO and Uganda’s Makerere University launched a first-ever\u00a0ring-vaccination trial<\/a>\u00a0using a vaccine candidate from the\u00a0International AIDS Vaccine Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(IAVI). The rapid deployment of the vesicular stomatitis virus-based jab at an early (phase I) stage of development followed a recent\u00a0phase I human trial<\/a>, which, according to data shared at last November’s annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), indicated that the investigational vaccine was both safe and immunogenic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MedPage Today On the first day of President Trump’s second term, he signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from\u00a0the World Health Organization\u00a0(WHO). In an ironic twist of fate just 10 days later, a\u00a032-year-old Ugandan nurse\u00a0had a positive post-mortem test for a deadly\u00a0filovirus. But unlike Ebola Zaire virus, its close viral kin, this man’s killer […]<\/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":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebola","category-featured-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\/8749","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=8749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8752,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}