A new study demonstrates the first sucessful vaccine treatment of the deadly hemorrhagic Marburg disease in monkeys. Marburg is a close relative of the gruesome and untreatable Ebola virus. (New Scientist) It should not be surprising that the research was conducted at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Will we one day in a battlefield situation see the Pentagon immunize our own fighting forces against hemorrhagic fever and somehow arrange for their opponents to be infected?
