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  3. One year into the Ebola epidemic: a deadly, tenacious and unforgiving virus

One year into the Ebola epidemic: a deadly, tenacious and unforgiving virus

15 Jan 2015
One year into the Ebola epidemic: a deadly, tenacious and unforgiving virus

Ebola survivor

One year after the first Ebola cases started to surface in Guinea, WHO is publishing this series of 14 papers that take an in-depth look at West Africa's first epidemic of Ebola virus disease

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