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Yap Boum, Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Ebola: how a vaccine turned a terrifying virus into a preventable disease

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976.

Ebola is a terrifying virus which, if left untreated, causes bleeding inside the body and through the eyes, nose, mouth and rectum.

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