Marburg Defeated

Thomas Geisbert of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has reported the success of his proven vaccine for Marburg Disease for post-infection testing. His team infected several macaques with a potent dose of Marburg, and then vaccinated them one half hour later. The treated macaques survived for 80 days, while the untreated ones survived for merely 12. While the vaccine has been dubbed a success, human testing will be (thankfully) difficult, as the lethal disease is rare.

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