In fact, Ebola had appeared already in the early sixties of the last century in biowarfare plants in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, Reston USA, Belgrade, former Yugoslavia and several Russian cities.

The present outbreak of the virus in Congo is enough for the world, especially Africans to be fully aware of the danger surrounding them and also to be familiar with the lies of the corrupt African politicians together with foreign governments and institutes.

Africa's conflict monitor distinguishes itself from the usual international coverage of Africa’s conflict developments by looking beyond the tumult and personalities of the day toward brewing problems on the horizon.

These trends usually have historical antecedents and forebode huge problems to come, and yet can be managed through planning and applied technologies today.

One such dilemma which is not only a source of strife today and certain conflict tomorrow, if not mitigated, is food insecurity on the continent, but also the development of strange diseases and vaccine trials in African countries.

After an enormous international effort overcame the catastrophic Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, research is now making the first steps towards better understanding, treatment, and prevention of the disease.

However, many scientific questions are still left to be answered. Ebola remains a threat to Africa as it returns to a dangerously unstable Democratic Republic of Congo and always are vaccine trials before the outbreaks.

Again The World Health Organization and outside experts are making arrangements to send an experimental Ebola vaccine to the Democratic Republic of Congo, should officials there say they need it to quell an outbreak there.

The DRC has not yet formally requested the vaccine, and it’s unclear if or when it will, but in a meanwhile, Ebola vaccine trials are already happening without the knowledge of ordinary citizens. The country’s drug regulatory agency would also have to authorize emergency use of the vaccine, which is not yet licensed.

But the WHO and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, told STAT that preparations to have the experimental vaccine ready for use are being made on a parallel track with investigations in DRC into the scale of the outbreak.

“If the question is: Is it going to be used in this particular outbreak? It’s not clear yet,” said Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, a public-private partnership that provides vaccines to lower income countries.

This Ebola epidemic is the country’s ninth, again is in a remote part of DRC. It is a part of the country with few roads, which should help contain the epidemic.

The previous Ebola outbreaks in DRC involved dozens of cases as opposed to hundreds or thousands. But the location also creates logistical difficulties.

Transporting medical supplies and teams of investigators to the outbreak zone is a slow work, as it involves getting patient samples back to the capital, Kinshasa, for testing.

It will also be also challenging to get doses of vaccine to the area if the government decides to use it. The experimental Ebola vaccine must be stored at -80 Celsius, which would involve transporting it in freezers, an enormously difficult task.

The vaccine, which goes by the working name rVSV-ZEBOV, is being developed by pharmaceutical giant Merck. Although there are other experimental Ebola vaccines at various stages of development, this is the only one so far which has been shown to protect people from the deadly virus.

That evidence comes from a clinical trial conducted again in an African country Guinea during the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014-2015. It is said the trial showed the vaccine-induced quick protection, a desirable characteristic for a vaccine designed for use in controlling outbreaks.

That study used what is known as a ring vaccination design, in which people who had been in contact with a confirmed case were vaccinated to prevent ongoing spread. The WHO has said if DRC uses the Ebola vaccine, it should vaccinate using the ring technique, said Tarik Jašarević, a spokesman for the WHO.

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