Containing Ebola at the Source with Ring Vaccination.

• Main Authors: Stefano Merler (Author), Marco Ajelli (Author), Laura Fumanelli (Author), Stefano Parlamento (Author), Ana Pastore Y Piontti (Author), Natalie E Dean (Author), Giovanni Putoto (Author), Dante Carraro (Author), Ira M Longini (Author), M Elizabeth Halloran (Author), Alessandro Vespignani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Interim results from the Guinea Ebola ring vaccination trial suggest high efficacy of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine. These findings open the door to the use of ring vaccination strategies in which the contacts and contacts of contacts of each index case are promptly vaccinated to contain future Ebola virus...