Vaccine for Ebola virus developed
March 31, 2008 | Source: KurzweilAI
An international team of researchers used recombinant DNA techniques to make an Ebola vaccine that is effective in non-human primates.
Vaccines for viruses like Ebola, Marburg and Lassa fever have been difficult to produce because simple “killed” viruses, which just trigger an antibody response from the blood, are not effective and because only a small number of facilities can conduct research on Biosafety Level 4 threats.