Innumerable media outlets wrote about the Ebola scare in the U.S., and many top-tier publications with staff in Africa covered the epidemic from the ground there. But few publications really went inside Ebola to explore how the virus propagates and what approaches researchers are taking to develop therapeutics, vaccines,and diagnostics to combat it. That’s what C&EN’s story did. The coverage was accessible to the interested lay reader but scientifically rigorous enough to appeal to the magazine’s chemist readers.
