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Experimental Ebola vaccine raises hopes, doubts in Congo

By Sam Mednick, Lauran Neergaard and John Bompengo

Sam Mednick, Africa correspondent, Lauran Neergaard, medical writer in Health and Science, and John Bompengo, Africa videojournalist, for an up-close look at the hope and fears that accompanied an experimental Ebola vaccine dispatched by health officials to Congo to try to stop the spread of a terrifying disease. https://bit.ly/2M8RNpJ

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JUNE 22, 2018

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