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Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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T1 - Ebola vaccines were always in the pipeline – now we’re starting to see the results
AU - Gatherer, Derek
PY - 2014/12/23
Y1 - 2014/12/23
N2 - When people look back on 2014, it may be best remembered as the year of Ebola. Two previous assumptions – that the virus was confined to remote regions of central Africa, and that the notorious virulence of the disease acted as a kind of self-limiting factor, with epidemics always burning themselves out after their initial flare-up – were shattered. Since its discovery in 1976, Ebola has been a curiosity in virology’s chamber of horrors, but in 2014 it well and truly arrived as a serious player in the global disease-threat league table.
AB - When people look back on 2014, it may be best remembered as the year of Ebola. Two previous assumptions – that the virus was confined to remote regions of central Africa, and that the notorious virulence of the disease acted as a kind of self-limiting factor, with epidemics always burning themselves out after their initial flare-up – were shattered. Since its discovery in 1976, Ebola has been a curiosity in virology’s chamber of horrors, but in 2014 it well and truly arrived as a serious player in the global disease-threat league table.
KW - Ebola
KW - Ebola virus disease
KW - Ebolavirus
KW - vaccine
KW - vaccination
M3 - Article
JO - The Conversation
JF - The Conversation
ER -