Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Zaire ebolavirus · Hamburg · verified historical
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Summary
A virologist at the Bernhard Nocht Institute in Hamburg was potentially exposed to Zaire ebolavirus via a needlestick while working with infected mice. She was treated experimentally with a VSV-vectored vaccine candidate within 48 hours of exposure and did not develop clinical illness.
Why this matters
First emergency post-exposure use of a candidate Ebola vaccine in a human; precursor evidence for the rVSV-ZEBOV (Ervebo) programme.
Sources
- T1 Ebola Virus Disease Distribution Map and Outbreak History CDC · 2026-05-18
- T2 Postexposure prophylaxis for Ebola virus infection in laboratory worker (Günther et al.) The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2026-05-18