| management of accidental exposure to ebola virus in the biosafety level 4 laboratory, hamburg, germany. | a needlestick injury occurred during an animal experiment in the biosafety level 4 laboratory in hamburg, germany, in march 2009. the syringe contained zaire ebolavirus (zebov) mixed with freund's adjuvant. neither an approved treatment nor a postexposure prophylaxis (pep) exists for ebola hemorrhagic fever. following a risk-benefit assessment, it was recommended the exposed person take an experimental vaccine that had shown pep efficacy in zebov-infected nonhuman primates (nhps) [12]. the vacci ... | 2011 | 21987751 |