Hopes of containing a growing outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo are pinned on an experimental vaccine that was tested in 2015 during a major outbreak of the disease. The World Health Organization plans to vaccinate up to 10,000 people in the first phase of its response...
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