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Congo-Kinshasa: As Congo Faces First Urban Ebola Outbreak, Experimental Vaccine Deployed
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 17 May 2018
It's the first outbreak in an urban area of the central African country. Read more »
With the country's unreliable electricity, storage of the vaccines will be tricky, as they require temperatures between minus 60 celsius (-76°F) and minus 80 celsius (-112°F).
An Ebola vaccination team (file photo).
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