EBOLA VACCINE IS 'POTENTIAL GAME-CHANGER'

EBOLA VACCINE IS 'POTENTIAL GAME-CHANGER'

Preliminary results suggest a vaccine against the Ebola virus has led to 100% protection and could transform the way Ebola is tackled. There were no proven drugs or vaccines against the virus at the start of the largest outbreak of Ebola in history, which began in Guinea in December 2013. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the findings, being published in the Lancet, could be a "game-changer".

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Ebola Returns to Liberia

Ebola Returns to Liberia

Ebola returns to Liberia — three new cases reported this week in the previously Ebola-free country. People are questioning whether Liberia was really free of the disease to begin with. Liberian health officials reported the death of a 17-year-old boy from Ebola on Sunday, and two other cases of Ebola in people who were with the boy when he died. Liberia is now monitoring more than 100 people who had contact with the boy who died, and this number is expected to increase.

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