Medical Journal The Lancet carries news today that a vaccine produced last year at Canada’s national laboratory in Winnipeg is an effective and fast immunization against Ebola. It is the first time an experimental Ebola vaccine has been shown to protect people against the deadly disease. There had been high hopes that this vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV. Now data from a field trial conducted in Guinea is said to show the vaccine “works pretty quickly, and it works well,” according to Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny of the World Health Organization
