The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: why there is no ‘silver bullet’
Hana Rohan, Gillian McKay
Abstract
Despite new vaccines, therapeutics, and the extensive lessons learned from the West African Ebola outbreak, the DRC’s 2018–2020 outbreak has taken nearly 20 months to bring under control. This Comment explores some of the factors that have made this outbreak so complex.
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