First Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine to start human trials in the UK

Scientists in Oxford are preparing to test the world's first vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, Euronews reports, as an outbreak of the rare variant continues to spread across Congo and Uganda. Ebola is a severe and often deadly virus, and this would mark the first human trials of a shot targeting this particular strain.

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