The Ebola vaccine we dared to dream of is here | Jeremy Farrar
by Jeremy Farrar from on (#G8CV)
A success rate of 100% in trials is spectacular. There is no excuse for inertia on other diseases now
For more than a year and a half, three of the world's poorest countries have struggled against the most devastating Ebola epidemic in human history. Containing this unprecedented outbreak would have been a huge challenge for Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone under any conditions. But the scale of the task was far greater because of the absence of the most effective possible defence: a vaccine.
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