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    Ebola outbreak in DRC sets up another test for experimental treatments

    A handful of experimental therapeutics may be available to try to quell the world's latest Ebola outbreak.
    by Helen Branswell Aug 03, 2018 2 minutes
    An aid worker from the Democratic Republic of Congo gets vaccinated against Ebola in Mbandaka in May.

    In the world of Ebola outbreaks, lucky breaks are few and far between. But it appears the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have caught a small one in its latest go-round with the dangerous disease.

    And it might also give the world another shot at testing an experimental Ebola vaccine.

    Officials in the DRC said Thursday that testing has shown that the province in the northeast of the

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