We soon may be able to halt the spread of Ebola outbreaks through vaccination. A general overview on where we are with Ebola vaccines will be given at the Society for General Microbiology meeting this year in Edinburgh Scotland reports CBC Canada news. Studies with primates have shown that an Ebola vaccine can be effective. Ebola can kill very quickly and is quite contagious making health officials fear that it could cause disastrous results if spread through air travel or bioterrorism.