Battling Ebola
Studying the virus in the lab at home—and on the ground in West Africa
As the worst Ebola outbreak on record continued to infect new patients and claim additional lives in West Africa, BU Research launched a weeklong Special Report in which BU researchers discussed why medical personnel risk traveling to the hot zone; how the virus kills; the ethical and political dilemmas presented by the outbreak; efforts to design effective therapies; the importance of studying deadly pathogens; and other aspects of the outbreak.
