Vaccine protects monkeys from Ebola virus
By Nathan Seppa
Using a double-barreled approach to immunization, scientists have created a combination of vaccines that fends off deadly Ebola virus in monkeys. The new inoculation uses pieces of Ebola DNA both by themselves and in an adenovirus, a virus commonly modified to carry genes.
“This is a good first step,” says Paul W.H.I. Parren, an immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. It’s the first published success in immunizing primates against Ebola, he says.