Ebola then and now.

@article{Breman2014EbolaTA,
  title={Ebola then and now.},
  author={Joel G. Breman and Karl M. Johnson},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2014},
  volume={371 18},
  pages={
          1663-6
        }
}
In 1976, an international group of scientists flew to Zaire to help elucidate and control an outbreak of lethal hemorrhagic fever. The current Ebola epidemic has much in common with that first Ebola outbreak, and similar approaches may bring it under control. 
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