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NIH Director: Budget Cuts Prevented Ebola Vaccine

HeadlineOct 13, 2014

A U.S. health official says an Ebola vaccine would likely be ready if it were not for budget cuts. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, told The Huffington Post, “Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine.”

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