New Ebola Strain: Africa CDC reveals why vaccine is still unavailable
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According to him, some international partners have treated the disease as an African problem and have not shown enough interest in developing a vaccine against it.
The Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr Jean Kaseya, has blamed the lack of international interest in Africa for the absence of an approved vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.
Kaseya said the strain might already have an approved vaccine if it were affecting Western countries.
“If this outbreak was in Western countries, vaccine would already be available,” he said during an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Thursday.
He explained that the Bundibugyo strain had received less attention because it had caused fewer outbreaks than the Zaire strain, which has been responsible for more than 16 outbreaks.
According to him, some international partners have treated the disease as an African problem and have not shown enough interest in developing a vaccine against it.