Congo's Ebola Outbreak Becomes the Deadliest in the Country's History
WHO's technical caveats bury a milestone X reported ten days early, and both sides underplay that the strain driving it has no licensed vaccine.
Kenji Nakamura
Bureau: Tokyo
Dolly Parton's Legacy Includes Seed Money for Moderna's mRNA Research
Yesterday's obituary was about music and philanthropy in the abstract; today's science press reframes her as a specific research funder who helped seed a COVID vaccine years before anyone needed one.
No Approved Vaccine Exists for the Bundibugyo Ebola Strain
Headlines keep using 'vaccine deployment' language that implies an approved shot; WHO's own recommendations say plainly there is none, only trials in progress.