HEALTHJul 1 · 08:30 UTCSTAT NEWSKrutika Kuppalli and Placide Mbala

Opinion: What Ebola and Marburg are teaching us about the next pandemic

The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, highlighting the absence of licensed vaccines and therapeutics for this rare Ebola species. A significant challenge remains the inability to rapidly and reliably diagnose the pathogen.

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