EBOLA EPIDEMIC MAY NOT END WITHOUT DEVELOPING VACCINE, SCIENTIST WARNS (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 17, 2014, 00:22

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The Ebola epidemic, which is out of control in three countries and directly threatening 15 others, may not end until the world has a vaccine against the disease, according to one of the scientists who discovered the virus.

Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it would not have been difficult to contain the outbreak if those on the ground and the UN had acted promptly earlier this year. “Something that is easy to control got completely out of hand,” said Piot, who was part of a team that identified the causes of the first outbreak of Ebola in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1976 and helped bring it to an end.

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