Ebola vaccine shows promise for gorillas and chimps

This news was published on the 10th of March in the BBC news. It talks about how ebola affects gorillas and what scientists can do to solve this problem.

This news starts talking about how many gorillas have died because of this disease. It says that these animals are endangered because of poaching, so if we can avoid additional deaths from disease why can't do it? So, a group of scientist have created a vaccine to prevent gorillas from ebola.

First of all, the vaccine was tested on 10 gorillas in the University of Lousiana Lafayette and it worked ,so scientists thought that it was the time to give the vaccine to all gorillas. Mr Walsh is looking for a way to put the vaccine in wild gorillas, he says that they can give them the vacine in sweets, or they can put it in a spray.

Lize Macafie, vice chairperson of the International Union for Conservation Nature's said that it will be difficult to provide the vaccine to all the apes because not all of them are used to being with humans, and maybe the vaccine won't work in the same way in all apes. But it has to be done, otherwise, gorillas and apes will be more endangered. 

Personal opinion    

I think that's a really good idea because the animals in danger of extinction are in danger for many causes so, if we can avoid one of these causes, then there will be more animals of this species. On the other hand I think that this would be very difficult because not all the animals are trained to be with humans, and if a man goes and injects something in a gorilla, maybe the gorilla won't be very kind!

 Ebola vaccine shows promise for gorillas and chimps