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KINSHASA, Sept 17 — Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the virus more than 40 years ago. The 79-year-old virologist was speaking at a...

KINSHASA, Sept 17 — Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the virus more than 40 years ago.

Together with more effective clinical treatments, the availability of vaccines means the highly infectious haemorrhagic fever that once proved almost always fatal can now be contained. After 1976, the disease plunged back into obscurity until 1995 when an epidemic of “red diarrhoea” erupted in Kikwit, a 400,000-strong city in western DRC.

 

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