Written questions

Brazil and Great Lakes Region: Ebola

2026-05-31 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · HL515 · Official question

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Brazil; and what measures they are taking to develop an Ebola vaccine.

Answer

Further to my statement to the House on 21 May (HLWS64), I visited Kinshasa on 29 May to see first-hand how agencies on the ground are responding to the Ebola outbreak, with the support of the UK and other international partners, and to discuss that respo...