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Could Vaccinating Gorillas Be Our Best Shot To Stop a Pandemic?

Pandemic of the Apes

After a wave of Ebola devastated the Congo Basin’s gorilla population in 2002, one American ecologist embarked on a quest to vaccinate the great apes and, he hoped, stop animal-borne diseases from spreading to humans. Could he convince the vaccine skeptics among his colleagues that it would be worth it?