The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

The species of virus at the heart of the outbreak, Zaire ebolavirus has historically been thought to have the highest fatality rate of all Ebola species, up to 90%. Although it is difficult to ...

The 2014 outbreak in west Africa exposed a critical ... its efficacy exceeds 95% in preventing infection from the Zaire Ebola virus strain, the deadliest variant. The vaccine was deployed during ...

By the time the outbreak ended, the World Health Organization ... that had been modified to express the Zaire Ebola virus surface glycoprotein (ZEBOV-GP), thereby eliciting an antibody response ...