‘You’re holding your breath’: Scientists who toiled for years on an Ebola vaccine see the first one put to the test
The Ebola vaccine being fielded in the latest outbreak is the product of years of striving against skepticism and disinterest.
An Ebola outbreak has once again commanded global attention, eliciting feelings of dread, anxiety, and concern.
But for a small community of researchers who have toiled for years to develop a vaccine against Ebola — one that is being used for the first time to try to contain an outbreak — it is also thrilling.
These scientists take no joy in knowing as they do the devastation that the virus can wreak. But after years of frustration with the global response to Ebola outbreaks — and a sense of helplessness in the face of so much misery — they see what’s happening now in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a possible watershed moment, one
