Noted: The outbreak comes couldn’t have come at a worse time for vaccine makers: Only four places make the yellow fever vaccine, and the government-run facility in Dakar, Senegal is shutting down soon for renovations. “That is incredibly bad timing,” says Thomas Yuill, an emerging viruses researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison. And ramping up production elsewhere will be slow due to the intensive egg-based process for making the vaccine.
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