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Researchers test Ebola vaccine for wild apes

Amid promising reports of effective Ebola vaccines for humans, a vaccine that could potentially protect endangered wild apes from deadly infectious diseases, including the Ebola virus, is being tested at the New Iberia...

28 August, 2015

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Key protein pathways critical to Ebola virus can be blocked, according to new study

Scientists have successfully blocked the Ebola infection in cell-culture experiments, in a critical early step to develop a vaccine for the life-threatening virus. The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, the largest in...

20 July, 2015

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NIAID announces milestone achievement in Ebola vaccine study

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health, recently announced that an Ebola vaccine study has made a milestone achievement by enrolling 1,500...

15 June, 2015

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Tracking Ebola virus genomes with ultra-small device

A device about the size of a small chocolate bar could offer a way to sequence the genomes of viruses. When poor countries, with limited infrastructure, experience disease outbreaks – as happened with Ebola in West...

4 May, 2015

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Two Ebola vaccines have passed some hurdles

Two new rapid-acting Ebola vaccines have passed over hurdles: They have protected monkeys against the strain of the deadly virus that caused the recent outbreak in West Africa. The vaccines worked against Ebola in one...

24 April, 2015

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Houston scientist hatches plan to prevent next Ebola

Haunted by the public health community’s failure to prevent or contain Ebola, a top Houston expert is spearheading a government-sponsored effort to prepare North Africa and the Middle East so that the region...

17 April, 2015

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Vaccination must be scaled up in Ebola-affected countries

A growing risk of outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases in countries affected by Ebola must be countered by urgent scaling up of routine immunization activities, according to the World...

12 April, 2015

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Ebola vaccines appear safe and successful, say US researchers

Two experimental Ebola vaccinations “appear to be safe” after testing in Liberia. Meanwhile, a British nurse has been cleared of the virus, but doctors cautioned speculation about the drug’s role in her recovery. The...

2 April, 2015

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Researchers test first Ebola vaccine in infected community

World Health Organization (WHO) and Guinean government officials have launched the first trial of an Ebola vaccine in Basse-Guinee, a community affected by the virus during the past year. VSV-EBOV, a leading Ebola...

31 March, 2015

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Unique Ebola vaccine delivery strategy could stop ape-to-human transmission

Putting an end to a lethal virus may mean going directly to the source, as one study suggests a possible approach to stopping the transmission of the Ebola virus. Michael Jarvis, PhD, and his Plymouth University...

30 March, 2015

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