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At last we may have a way to fight back against the Ebola virus

By Philip Cohen

9 August 2003

A FAST-ACTING Ebola vaccine might help to contain outbreaks of the deadly disease. A single shot of the experimental vaccine protected monkeys from the virus within a month, compared with six months for an earlier multi-injection regime.

“We may be able to create a ring of vaccination around an outbreak to contain it,” says Gary Nabel of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of ��ҹ��1000�� in Bethesda, Maryland.

And if the Ebola vaccine proves safe and effective, he hopes that the same approach could be used to inoculate people against other infections for which there are currently no…

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