There are other hemorrhagic fevers with no vaccine. I don't think we should get too carried away with Ebola just because it has, roughly speaking, a higher mor

There are other hemorrhagic fevers with no vaccine. I don't think we should get too carried away with Ebola just because it has, roughly speaking, a higher mortality rate, and has been kept in the news by this latest outbreak. The ability to make a vaccine that looks promising a year after a major outbreak occurs is good, but not so impressive. A better achievement is, will be, developing processes to create vaccines for viruses, even previously unknown viruses, rapidly, being able to target viruses in places and stages current vaccines can't handle[1][2], and developing ways of testing a vaccine's efficacy without waiting for a large outbreak. Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague (readily found by searching for the title in combination with epub) chronicles some encounters and research with various pathogens including several hemorrhagic fevers. [1] Rabies still kills tens of thousands of people a year in Asia and Africa, in places where "get vaccinated" is not the standard response to getting bitten by a wild animal (the major vector of Rabies there is feral dogs); by the time symptoms appear it's too late. That's more people dead of Rabies per year than have died in the known history of Ebola outbreaks. [2] Or, for example, HIV.