EBOLA/EVD [to 16 April 2016]
“Threat to international peace and security” (UN Security Council)

Editor’s Note:
Following last week’s decision by WHO, we have removed the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) designation we have carried above. We have not identified any action by the UN Security Council to change the “Threat to international peace and security” designation. We will continue to present Ebola updates in this space for the near-term, and monitor whether the Security Council takes action on the threat designation.

The last “Ebola Situation Update” is dated 30 March 2016 and we observe that WHO has established an Ebola Situation Report archive, indicating that this may be the final situation report. There is no announcement on this evident on the website.

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Looking, hopefully, towards an Ebola-free future
15 April 2016 — WHO, partners and affected countries are stepping up planning for how to use an Ebola vaccine in response to an outbreak. The Ebola outbreak that struck Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in 2014 prompted the search, on an exceptionally accelerated schedule, for a vaccine to prevent the disease. Although there has been more than one promising candidate, the vesicular stomatitis virus-ebola virus (VSV-EBOV) vaccine was selected.