Ebola vaccination campaign begins in DRC

The Ebola vaccination campaign has begun in DRC, to combat the latest outbreak in the country which has left at least 27 dead and 58 others with symptoms.

Though vaccination has started after the collection of more than 7,500 doses of the Ebola vaccine shipped to the country by the WHO, animist or religious beliefs of the sick and their parents are said to now threaten the effective use of the vaccines.