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How close are we to having a drug to treat Ebola?

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How close are we to having a drug to treat Ebola?

As the Ebola virus death toll rises in West Africa, 51¶¯Âþ rounds up the best contenders for treatments and vaccines

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Ebola outbreak: What you need to know about its spread

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Ebola outbreak: What you need to know about its spread

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Threatwatch: Chikungunya virus hits the US and Europe

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Threatwatch: Chikungunya virus hits the US and Europe

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Brazil to unleash GM-mosquito swarms to fight dengue

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Brazil to unleash GM-mosquito swarms to fight dengue

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Drug combo 'game changer' for drug-resistant TB

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Drug combo 'game changer' for drug-resistant TB

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US admits security breaches with deadly virus samples

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Detroit water shut-offs condemned as threat to health

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Detroit water shut-offs condemned as threat to health

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US bioterror fears are driving Ebola drug development

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US bioterror fears are driving Ebola drug development

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Fighting fear, denial and death on Ebola frontline

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Master plan hatched as African Ebola deaths pass 500

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Master plan hatched as African Ebola deaths pass 500

African nations have hatched a strategy to halt the world's worst outbreak of Ebola and doctors are demanding greater use of technology in the fight

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Life

How scared should we be of lab-created flu outbreaks?

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Kill cattle not badgers to halt UK's TB epidemic

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Ebola outbreak in West Africa is deadliest ever

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Anthrax escape raises worries about lab-grown super-flu

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