Fighting Ebola ... and What Might Come Next
Treatments are being developed for Ebola, but it’s not the only disease epidemiologists are worried about
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The severity of this year’s outbreak in West Africa jump-started efforts to find a vaccine and a cure. Epidemiologists and health officials are already concerned about the potential of other untreatable diseases to trigger new epidemics.
Experimental Ebola vaccines
Maker: Johnson & Johnson
Status: Human trials expected to begin in January 2015
Availability: 250,000 doses by May 2015