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The study is the first to show that in addition to preventing infections, the vaccine can save some people who are already sick with the often fatal disease.
The research, based on data from the massive 2018-2020 Ebola Zaire outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , showed that the risk of dying of Ebola was halved among people who had been vaccinated with a single dose of Merck 's Ervebo before developing symptoms.
The incubation period for Ebola runs from two to 21 days , meaning that anyone who developed symptoms in the three weeks after being vaccinated may have already been infected when they received the vaccine.
The vaccine may activate the body's first line of defense against invading pathogens.
Ebola dampens the innate immune response; the vaccine may override that effect.
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