Congo Deploys Experimental Ebola Treatment as Cases Rise

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has started using the experimental mAb114 Ebola treatment to counter the latest flare-up of the virus, health officials said Tuesday, the first time it has been deployed against an active outbreak. Forty-two people are believed to have died from the hemorrhagic fever in Congo's 10th Ebola outbreak since the disease was discovered in the 1970s. In all, there have been 66 cases to date, including 39 confirmed and 27...

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