The population of Sierra Leone exploded with joy when the World Health Organization declared the West African country finally Ebola-free after containing the outbreak that devasted the nation for a year and a half.
Lower-income countries will have access to four impactful vaccines, including a preventive Ebola one, thus protecting more people against more diseases more quickly.
The highly infectious hemorrhagic fever known as Ebola is now under control thanks to vaccines and a treatment developed by the very virologist who discovered the virus in Congo some 40 years ago.