The effort to develop an Ebola vaccine has made progress recently, but too late to save those who died during last year's epidemic. Scientists are now racing to find a vaccine against the Zika virus. Andrew Ward, FT pharmaceuticals correspondent, asks Charlie Weller of the Wellcome Trust why scientists are so often behind the curve. Music by David Sappa

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