What will it take to get a vaccine for the Ebola strain driving the current outbreak?

What will it take to get a vaccine for the Ebola strain driving the current outbreak?

Houston Public Media - June 4, 2026

Thomas Geisbert, a vaccine researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, helped develop this vaccine over 15 years ago, after the first Bundibugyo outbreak in 2007. In a 2014 study, he and his colleagues showed their Bundibugyo vaccine worked in monkeys. A subsequent study, published in 2023, showed vaccinating monkeys 20 to 30 minutes after exposure also offered high levels of protection.

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