In April 2005, Canadian microbiologist Steven Jones walked into an isolation ward clad in protective gear, picked up a chubby, burbling baby boy and fed him a bottle. Jones had arrived in Angola the month before, part of an international relief effort to help quell an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus. Two days later, that baby boy was dead, and Jones — who had recently helped develop a vaccine he believed could have saved him and hundreds of others — was plagued by the question: what if?
“We had something that could stop the disease in its tracks,” said Jones in a recent interview with FRONTLINE. “But we weren’t able to use it.”
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