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 Health 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…
