A single-dose Ebola vaccine, given without a needle, has protected primates against infection for at least 21 weeks, according to a new study. The vaccination was given to macaques, a kind of Asian monkey, through their nose and lungs. The study was reported in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics. The researchers noted that the current Ebola… Continue reading An Ebola Vaccine – Without a Needle?
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How a Local Disease Becomes a Global Epidemic
Researchers tracking the global path of illnesses such as Ebola say that the frequency of long distance travel, not a high concentration of sufferers in one area, is a crucial factor in changing an outbreak into a worldwide epidemic. The biophysicists, from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, found that if fewer people… Continue reading How a Local Disease Becomes a Global Epidemic