​​The first volunteer in the world - a 37-year-old UK man called Ed Hunt - has received an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus. Hunt said he wanted to help after seeing news reports of the deadly Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. ​​The vaccine, designed using the same technology as one of the UK's Covid vaccines, was given in Oxford where scientists developed it in just eight weeks. ​​He told the BBC what motivated him to take part: "I had wanted to volunteer for the Covid vaccine trial but was unable to because of work commitments. The vaccine uses the same technology as the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid jab which was given to hundreds of millions of people during the pandemic.