What delays in Ebola vaccine discovery cost weeks or months?

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Delays in Ebola Vaccine Development Stemmed from Initial Misidentification

The development of an Ebola vaccine faced significant delays during the 2013-16 West African outbreak due to the time required to identify the causative agent. It took an estimated three to four months to accurately determine that the virus was Ebola before any work on a vaccine could commence. This period of diagnostic uncertainty allowed the virus to spread extensively across Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, resulting in approximately 11,300 fatalities according to the World Health Organization.

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