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Blood Transfusions Potential Cure for Ebola
The military hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, conducted a controlled clinical trial in which 35 ebola patients received blood transfusions from donors who survived the disease. Though comparisons with the control arm of the study are not currently avail...
New WHO Regional Director For Africa Plans To Terminate Ebola
The Ebola epidemic in 2014 represents the largest outbreak of the deadly disease in the recorded history of mankind. The devastating illness has killed more than 10,000 people and affected more than 22,000.While the virus sprinted through West African ...
Three Promising Ebola Vaccinations are in the Works
As headlines shift away from the Ebola outbreak that flourished in 2014, it’s easy to forget the disease that "sickened more than 200,000 people in West Africa, and killed at least 8,200, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)."Although curre...