ebola be gone

The first outbreak of Ebola came in 1976. According to the the World Health Organization (WHO), though, the time between late 2013 and early 2016 was considered the “largest” and most “complex” Ebola epidemic since its discovery. Fortunately, researchers have reported a solution for this issue. Using the same strategy to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s, ring vaccination, thus far, has maintained a 100 percent success rate in stopping Ebola. Ring vaccination involves vaccinating friends and family that come in contact with an infected person as a precaution. The vaccine uses an animal virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, that’s not harmful to people and is genetically engineered to contain a small amount of the Ebola virus to stimulate an immune response. The FDA was so impressed that the vaccine was labeled as a breakthrough and fast tracked through the licensing process.