Despite being widely celebrated, the Ebola vaccine might not prove as effective as it is advertised to be.

Adia Benton teaches African studies and the anthropology of health, humanitarianism and development at Northwestern University. She is the author of t... he award-winning book, HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone, and is writing a book about the 2014-16 West African Ebola outbreak.
Despite being widely celebrated, the Ebola vaccine might not prove as effective as it is advertised to be.