Science | "Big Ebola outbreak puts spotlight on little-known virus"
Science interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about the Bundibugyo virus and a disease outbreak in Central Africa.
Science interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and holder of the Gordon–Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about the Bundibugyo virus, which researchers say is causing a current outbreak of an Ebola-like disease that has already claimed more than 200 lives.
"We’re all working with local collaborators to answer critical research questions as quickly as possible,” says Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles who has worked in the (Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC) for decades.
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Rimoin is rushing to test whether sera from vaccine recipients and survivors of previous outbreaks in the DRC, collected over many years, show any reactivity against Bundibugyo. That could at least give a clue about whether (ebola) Zaire vaccines offer cross- protection, she says, adding: “It’s another piece of the puzzle.”
