WHO (World Health Organization) Target Product Profile for Multivalent Filovirus Vaccines: Providing Long-Term Protection to High-Risk Populations

World Health Organization. 11/2016 This 11-page document considers the prophylactic use of filovirus vaccines to protect high-risk groups whether before or during an outbreak of a public health emergency of international concern. These target groups comprise healthcare workers, frontline workers, and others at occupational risk, including potentially deployed international workers essential to assist in future outbreaks. The document provides guidance for prophylactic use only, where the primary objective of vaccination is individual protection and not interruption of transmission (reactive use). (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 31, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news