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Did you have any idea that Canada played a major role in fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa?
Citizen reporter Elizabeth Payne travelled to Guinea to document how a Canadian-made vaccine was making a huge difference.
But she also examine the challenges it took for the vaccine to be developed and approved here, and why some argue it should have been distributed much faster.
Read Payne’s stories below, and see our other reporters and photographers reflect on the stories from this year they’ll remember most.
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Health workers prepare the Canadian-developed Ebola vaccine during medical trials in Guinea. Credit: Youssouf Bah
Winnipeg’s biosafety containment level 4 laboratory allows an expert to investigate various infectious diseases known as special pathogens. These include Lassa fever virus, Ebola virus and Marburg virus. The National Microbiology Laboratory announced today it completed the first-ever genetic sequencing of H1N1 flu samples, which found the virus strain in Canada closely matches the one that has killed 170 people in Mexico. (Photo Courtesy of the National Microbiology Laboratory)
Bouboucar Diallo, a Canadian-educated Ebola surveillance coordinator with the World Health Organization in Guinea, was one of the first to receive the experimental Ebola vaccine in the country. Credit Youssouf bah
CHEO physician Melissa Langevin went to Sierra Leone to work with Ebola patients.
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Citizen reporter Elizabeth Payne travelled to Guinea to document how a Canadian-made vaccine was making a huge difference.
But she also examine the challenges it took for the vaccine to be developed and approved here, and why some argue it should have been distributed much faster.
Read Payne’s stories below, and see our other reporters and photographers reflect on the stories from this year they’ll remember most.
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The story of ‘the Canadian vaccine’ that beat back Ebola
The new lepers: Life after Ebola brings new struggle for survivors, orphans in devastated Guinea
Scientists behind Ebola vaccine set sights on Zika
Health workers prepare the Canadian-developed Ebola vaccine during medical trials in Guinea. Credit: Youssouf Bah
Winnipeg’s biosafety containment level 4 laboratory allows an expert to investigate various infectious diseases known as special pathogens. These include Lassa fever virus, Ebola virus and Marburg virus. The National Microbiology Laboratory announced today it completed the first-ever genetic sequencing of H1N1 flu samples, which found the virus strain in Canada closely matches the one that has killed 170 people in Mexico. (Photo Courtesy of the National Microbiology Laboratory)
Bouboucar Diallo, a Canadian-educated Ebola surveillance coordinator with the World Health Organization in Guinea, was one of the first to receive the experimental Ebola vaccine in the country. Credit Youssouf bah
CHEO physician Melissa Langevin went to Sierra Leone to work with Ebola patients.
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