Vaccine protects monkeys from Ebola virus

摘要

Using a double-barreled approach to immunization, scientists have created a combination of vaccines that fends off deadly Ebola virus in monkeys. The new inoculation uses pieces of Ebola DNA both by themselves and in an adenovirus, a virus commonly modified to carry genes. "This is a good first step," says Paul W. H.I. Parren, an immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. It's the first published success in immunizing primates against Ebola, he says.