EPISODE · Jul 17, 2015 · 48 MIN
What Have We Learned from the Ebola Outbreak?
from Radio Motherboard
It’s now been just over a year and a half of the biggest Ebola outbreak in history. We’ve dabbled in vaccines, but the best prevention method is still abstaining from contact with symptomatic patients, and the best treatment is still basically hydration. We’ve figured out that Ebola survivors seem at least temporarily immune, making them ideal health workers, but we still haven’t perfected treatment protocols and caretakers are still dying from the disease. This week on Radio Motherboard, we spoke to Kayla Ruble, who covered the outbreak in... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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It’s now been just over a year and a half of the biggest Ebola outbreak in history. We’ve dabbled in vaccines, but the best prevention method is still abstaining from contact with symptomatic patients, and the best treatment is still basically hydration. We’ve figured out that Ebola survivors seem at least temporarily immune, making them ideal health workers, but we still haven’t perfected treatment protocols and caretakers are still dying from the disease. This week on Radio Motherboard, we spoke to Kayla Ruble, who covered the outbreak in... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What Have We Learned from the Ebola Outbreak?
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