“This vaccine is based on the same platform that was used to develop the very effective vaccine for Ebola Zaire, so I believe there’s a real chance that this vaccine will be very effective ...

The strain of Ebola that has circulated in West Africa for the last year ... infected three cynomolgus macaques with the 1976 Mayinga strain and another three with the 2014 Makona strain. Both groups ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway.

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week ...