ebola vaccine?

[Walter Ogston]

nyneve at u.washington.edu ('Gavia immer' Deborah Wisti-Peterson) asks:
> 
> recently, i have been told that there has been an ebola vaccine
> developed that is being tested in africa. the person that relayed
> this information to me said this had been mentioned on a radio 
> newsbrief. does anyone know if this is true of if it is just 
> another one of those rumors?
> 
On TV this weekend they were showing a picture of a vial labeled "horse
IgG" and promoting a news segment supposedly on the cure for Ebola.  I
didn't catch the program itself, but I would guess someone has raised a
horse Ebola antiserum and is shooting this into infected people.  I
guess it might work - this is basically what they do if you are exposed
to rabies.  And rabies is more lethal than Ebola, btw.  

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