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Inside the research to fight Congo's deadliest Ebola outbreak

Original: Inside the study for a remedy to fight Congo’s deadliest Ebola outbreak

Reports detail an ongoing clinical study of experimental treatments being carried out during the deadliest Ebola outbreak recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The story looks at how researchers are testing potential remedies among patients in the outbreak zone, and the challenges of running rigorous trials amid an epidemic that has claimed well over a thousand lives.

Why now: The outbreak's scale and the urgency of finding an effective treatment keep Congo's Ebola response in global headlines.

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