Nature Link

15 February 2023 

Marburg virus outbreak: researchers race to test vaccines 

Control measures such as quarantine could end the outbreak in Equatorial Guinea quickly — good news for inhabitants but a mixed blessing for clinical trials. 

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The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, convened an urgent meeting yesterday to discuss the feasibility of testing Marburg vaccines that are in various stages of development. But the odds are against a successful trial, they say, because other control measures such as quarantine could end the outbreak before a single vaccine dose can be administered. 

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