Ebola vaccine: A Canadian success story
By Dr. Alain Beaudet Nov. 6, 2015
In December 2013, when the symptoms of the Ebola disease began to appear in the West African nation of Guinea, few could have predicted the magnitude and virulence of the epidemic that would follow and rapidly spread to the neighbouring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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