Ebola vaccine: ‘In an outbreak situation we’re racing against time’

Efforts to develop a vaccine against the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have already achieved initial successes thanks to an innovative funding strategy. With no approved vaccine or treatment available for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has triggered an urgent scientific response. Researchers have compressed years of vaccine development into weeks, launching the first human trials as the Geneva-based World…