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    <text>The Democratic Republic of the Congo begins vaccination for the Ebola outbreak in Kisangani, Tshopo, with healthcare and front line workers among the first to receive the vaccine. </text>
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      <text>Health Canada announces it has given Moderna the green light for authorization to launch a clinical trail for a mRNA Ebola vaccine aimed at targeting the Bundibugyo strain of the ebolavirus. </text>
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      <text>Health Canada announces it has given Moderna the green light for authorization to launch a clinical trail for a mRNA vaccine aimed at targeting the Bundibugyo strain of the ebolavirus. </text>
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    <text>Health Canada announces it has given Moderna the green light for authorization to launch a clinical trial for a mRNA Ebola vaccine aimed at targeting the Bundibugyo strain of the ebolavirus. </text>
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    <text>Singapore-based Hilleman Laboratories announces plans to advance an rVSV-based vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola into human trials after World Health Organization experts identified it as the most promising candidate for the epidemic. </text>
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      <text>Oxford University reports the first volunteer to be injected with the Ebola vaccine aimed at targeting the Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain of Ebola that is causing a outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. </text>
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    <text>Oxford University reports the first volunteer that has been injected with the Ebola vaccine aimed at targeting the Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain of Ebola that is causing a outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. </text>
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    <text>African CDC director Jean Kaseya reports that the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached past 1,000. </text>
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      <text>Democratic Republic of the Congo will test the Gilead Sciences antiviral for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus. </text>
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    <text>The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announces that it will test the Gilead Sciences antiviral for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus. </text>
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    <text>The University of Oxford begins the first human trial of its ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain of the ebolavirus. </text>
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    <text>The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused 202 deaths from 875 confirmed cases. Health officials cite difficulties in contact tracing, while the Red Cross warns that the outbreak has not yet peaked. </text>
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    <text>Youths gather in Nanyuki, Kenya to protest against the establishment of a quarantine center at the Laikipia Air Base for American citizens exposed to the Ebola virus. </text>
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      <text>Kenya admits assisting Uganda in the kidnapping of opposition politician Kizza Besigye in Nairobi in November 2024. Besigye was later taken to Uganda where he is on trial. </text>
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    <text>Kenya admits that it assisted Uganda in the kidnapping of opposition politician Kizza Besigye in Nairobi in November 2024. Besigye was later taken to Uganda, where he is currently on trial. </text>
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  <text>Kenya confirms its first imported case of the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebolavirus in Nairobi in a deceased male who traveled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. </text>
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