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FDA Approves Ebola Vaccine With 100% Effectiveness

  • Merck developed vaccine after Canadian research work
  • Vaccine was highly effective in earlier testing in outbreak

An Ebola survivor sits in her bedroom in Beni, north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sept. 17. 

Photographer: John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images
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U.S. regulators have approved a vaccine to protect against the deadly Ebola virus, a crucial step in the battle against an infection that’s considered one of the world’s deadliest killers.