a vaccine for the Ebola virus may be just round the corner. Researchers at the us -based National Institutes of Health have successfully tested a vaccine on animals which might open new avenues for the development of a vaccine for humans.

Of the eight macaques monkeys used in the study, four were injected with the deoxyribonucleic acid ( dna ) from the virus, three times over a period of four weeks. After a few months of rest