Ebola Vaccination Campaign in Cameroon: Rumour Debunked

On October 29, 2019, a message went viral on social media about the existence of a dangerous Ebola vaccination campaign in Cameroon. From findings done, the message is a hoax.

The Africa Director of the Centre for Disease Control, Dr John Nkengasong in an interview after an audience with Cameroon’s Prime Minister made it clear that there was no Ebola vaccination campaign taking place in Cameroon.

Aucune campagne en vue au #Cameroun contre la fièvre Ebola. Démenti du Directeur du Centre de contrôle et de prévention…
Posted by CRTVweb on Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Source of this Message

A Facebook user posted the message on the existence of an Ebola vaccination campaign in Cameroon on October 29, 2019 at 6:47am.
At press time, the message had two comments and 43 shares.

This post was also tweeted but had no link and no share by press time.

It is worth indicating that before this post in English, a similar post was done in French.
After Facebook and Twitter, the post was then copied and shared on whatsapp several times.
This is not the first time a rumour in relation to Ebola is being spread in Cameroon.

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