Questions Remain Over Ebola Vaccine Trials As Epidemic Subsides
Wall Street Journal: Squabbles Over Testing Methods Hamper Search for Ebola Vaccine
“The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa created a rare opportunity: New vaccines could be tested, and if they worked, serve as a firewall in future epidemics. It now appears this chance is slipping away amid public health officials’ squabbles over the right way to test vaccines. As a consequence, there may never be a definitive answer about the vaccines’ effectiveness…” (Burton, 4/9).
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