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Ebola in Uganda, and the dynamics of a new and different outbreak

  • Written by Steven Hatch, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
The author, Dr. Steven Hatch, with members of a church in Gbanga, Liberia, in October 2014. Steven Hatch, CC BY-NC-SA

The 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), has been a very different kind of outbreak than the massive West African outbreak that occurred in 2014 and 2015. For starters, it is much smaller, with just over...

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