By Ethan Covey
The World Health Organization announced plans to use a new Ebola vaccine to address a recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
While the rVSV-ZEBOV (recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus–Zaire Ebola virus) vaccine has yet to be approved, WHO, along with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières, UNICEF and other partners, decided its use in a ring vaccination strategy could help contain this highly infectious