It’s impractical to vaccinate for it given that it’s in the ‘wild’ there. You will never control for that until you know precisely where and when it transfers to humans.
At just $50/shot (which given other immunizations effectiveness profiles will wear off in 5-10 years) it would cost $50B to immunize Africa. For just one strain of one particular hemorrhagic fever. And you’d have to return to every single village to vaccinate every single baby born subsequently.
It has also drifted, genetically, since it was discovered in ‘76. And could very easily drift out of your immunization antigen protocol at any time.
Vaccines are picky creatures that prefer specific temperature conditions as well. Difficult to maintain those in the African bush.
Better to develop small molecules that are available in pill form to treat the few thousand that might happen early on in an outbreak. Much cheaper too, long term.
That particular small molecule has been shown to totally arrest symptomatic ebola analogue in mice. It’s already being tested in humans for other ailments. And yet we have heard nothing about it.
Yes....certainly, the tech exists today as a treatment for the disease.
I am obviously not talking about the short term when I speak of eradicating it. The methods I am talking about have to be done over several decades.