42 minutes ago Ten years ago Ebola tore through Sierra Leone. Can a vaccine drive stop history repeating itself?

Memories of 2014, when the disease ravaged west Africa, are raw, while risk remains high. This week the first ever nationwide prevention programme begins – and doctors hope it will be enough to fend off another disasterOn a concrete platform set into a steep hill in a Freetown slum, Daddy Hassan Kamara points to the tin-roofed shack behind him. “I was living here with my father, mother, wife, brothers,” he says. “I lost all my relatives inside a month.”Ten years ago, the Ebola virus tore through west Africa, killing more than 11,000 people, including nearly 4,000 in Sierra Leone – around 40% of those infected in the country. When the outbreak began, there was no vaccine. Continue reading...

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