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An Ebola vaccine was more than two decades in the making. Here are some key people who made it happen

It seemed like for years an Ebola vaccine would never be made. Here's a look at some of the key people who made it happen.
Ebola virus (green) is shown on the surface of a cell.

Many people contributed to the development of Merck’s Ebola vaccine, the first licensed one for the disease based on data showing it works in humans.

From the earliest work to turn a livestock virus into a delivery system for vaccines to a Herculean effort to test it during the waning days of the West African and regulators approved Ervebo, as Merck has named it, in late 2019.

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