Quarantined People Vaccinated in Sierra Leone after Ebola Death

Local Editor

Sierra Leone authorities Wednesday announced a vaccination program for people quarantined following a new Ebola death last week just as West Africa declared an end to the epidemic.

Sierra Leone’s head of medical services, Dr. Brima Kargbo said they were using the VSV-EBOV vaccine, which has already been tested in Guinea, and was also used in September in a town in northern Sierra Leone under quarantine.

Since Tuesday, 22 people have been vaccinated in Magburaka and five in Kambia while figures were not yet available for the town of Lunsar, where the dead student usually lived.

The Ebola outbreak, which began in Guinea in December 2013, killed more than 11,000 people and was the deadliest outbreak of the virus yet.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team