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    Second Ebola vaccine set to be used soon in Democratic Republic of the Congo

    by Helen Branswell Oct 31, 2019 3 minutes
    A woman is seen washing her hands at an Ebola screening station as she enters the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Rwanda.

    The Democratic Republic of the Congo will begin using a second Ebola vaccine as early as next week, the company developing the experimental product, Johnson & Johnson, said Thursday. J&J announced it is donating enough of the product to vaccinate up to 500,000 people.

    The vaccine will be used as part of a clinical trial, but the aim is as much to help extinguish the long-running outbreak in the country’s northeast as it is to gather data

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