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Carter’s environmental dedication also played into his famously chilly relationship with congressional Democrats—as historian and Public Citizens author Paul Sabin put it to me, “The Democratic Party in the 1970s was a more complex political coalition than it is today.”

“Carter had ambitions to overhaul energy policy in a broad, long-term way but was caught up in short-term challenges and responses to those political pressures,” said Sabin.

It was a “flexible” approach to regulation, as Sabin characterized it to me.

Joining Jones and Murach as co-authors on the paper from the U of A are Sabin Khadgi, a research technician for muscle physiology; PJ Koopmans, a Ph.D. candidate; Toby Chambers, a post-doctoral scholar; Francielly Morena, a recent U of A Ph.D. graduate; and Nicholas Greene, a professor and director of the Exercise Science Research Center.

While no vaccines against Marburg have been approved, Rwanda has begun trials with supplies sent from Sabin Institute, a US-based non-profit organisation.