By Gift BritonScientists are developing a single vaccine to protect against three deadly viruses that regularly strike Africa: Ebola Zaire, Sudan Ebola virus, and Marburg virus.These viruses cause ...

It confirms just how major an advancement the Ebola vaccine remains; the study is the first to show that in addition to preventing infections, the vaccine can save some people who are already sick ...

Dr. Fiona Havers, who studied medicine at the University of Washington, says the wholesale dismissal of the CDC's scientific ...

Outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus flare up in parts of Africa almost every year. The virus kills about half the people it infects. But a new study shows that a vaccine already in use is offering ...

Over time, however, researchers have developed ways to fight back against Ebola, including rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP, a single-dose intramuscular vaccine that causes cells to make one of the virus's proteins.

And this outbreak is different. Ebola is a disease of multitudes. For the most common species of the virus, successful vaccines have already been developed. But for others, no vaccine exists.

No approved vaccine was available during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, which began in Guinea and spread across borders to heavily impact Sierra Leone and Liberia. The epidemic ultimately resulted in up ...

There were no drugs or vaccines approved to treat or prevent Ebola or ready to enter into clinical trials at the outset of the epidemic. Therefore, many felt it was ethically necessary to conduct ...