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Ebola Vaccines Successfully Tested on Monkeys

Posted by timothy on from the bring-out-the-chimp dept.

An Anonymous Reader writes "Canadian and American researchers, in a joint venture between Canada's National Microbiology Lab and the U.S. military, have created two vaccines that prevent Monkeys from becoming ill with Ebola and Marburg. While a human vaccine may still be 5 years away, this is very promising news.

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  1. Re:What??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Those evil monkeys clearly need to be spanked in Jesus' name!

  2. Hmm... by Mr2cents · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can see a new plot leading to the exact same movie as Planet Of The Apes...

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