‘Ebola is defeated’, says professor who discovered it


Prof Muyembe says that he is ‘the happiest of Congolese people’ now that Ebola is ‘preventable and curable’. — AFP

Ebola has been defeated.

Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the virus more than 40 years ago.

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