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Congo-Kinshasa: Lessons From Last Ebola Outbreak Guide Approach
VOA, 24 May 2018
When Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014, no one was prepared. A potential vaccine had been in limbo since a previous outbreak a decade earlier. Governments dragged their feet… Read more »
Past Lessons Aiding Current Ebola Outbreak
By the time the epidemic was brought under control in 2016, more than 11,300 people had died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and the costs had risen to U.S.$4.3 billion. Painful lessons from the last Ebola outbreak are being applied to the current one, in the hope that the scope of the outbreak will be limited.
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