Why an outbreak of Ebola’s lethal cousin could help us test a new vaccine

Why an outbreak of Ebola’s lethal cousin could help us test a new vaccine

Daily Beast, April 10, 2023

There are several reasons why we haven’t yet come up with an approved vaccine for Marburg, said Dr. Robert Cross, a virologist at Galveston National Laboratory. One of the most salient is that “there really have not been that many outbreaks,” Cross said. “However, as we all know, when these outbreaks occur, they come with extremely dire outcomes, often with many dead.” It’s a blessing and a curse for public health researchers that Marburg outbreaks have historically been few and far in between, as a vaccine can’t be tested if people are never infected.

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