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Volume 31, Number 12—December 2025
Dispatch
Healthcare Worker Attitudes and Perceptions toward Ebola Vaccine, United States, 2024
Rinki Goswami, Anthony Lo Piccolo, Rachel Miller, Maria Frank, Corri Levine, and Justin Chan
Table 2
Topics that respondents to survey of healthcare worker attitudes and perceptions toward Ebola vaccine would like to learn more about regarding Ebola virus vaccination, United States, 2024*
| Topic | Total no. (%), n = 66 | No. (%) interested in receiving vaccine, n = 34 | No. (%) not interested in receiving vaccine or unsure, n = 32 | p value† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likelihood and nature of side effects from vaccination | 44 (66.7) | 23 (67.6) | 21 (65.6) | 0.862 |
| Likelihood and severity of spreading vaccine virus (vesicular stomatitis virus) to others | 39 (59.1) | 24 (70.6) | 15 (46.9) | 0.050 |
| Whether Ebola virus experts or other respected peers are getting vaccinated | 14 (21.2) | 8 (23.5) | 6 (18.8) | 0.635 |
| Individual risk of getting Ebola virus disease | 17 (25.8) | 6 (17.6) | 11 (34.4) | 0.120 |
| Facts about Ebola virus disease, including infectiousness and risk of severe sickness | 13 (19.7) | 9 (26.5) | 4 (12.5) | 0.154 |
| Other‡ |
5 (7.6) |
2 (5.9) |
3 (9.4) |
0.592 |
| None of the above | 8 (12.1) | 3 (8.8) | 5 (15.6) | 0.397 |
*Survey question: What additional knowledge or education about the Ebola virus vaccine, ERVEBO [Merck, https://www.merck.com], would you like to receive? (Select all that apply). †By using χ2 test. ‡Four of 5 respondents indicated “long-term research on this vaccine.”
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