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Curbing Congo’s Ebola outbreak is hampered by unknowns about the virus

Answers could lead to tools to fight the deadly disease and prevent future outbreaks

A health care worker wearing a full-body, white biohazard suit with teal gloves that come up to the elbow crouches with their hands with their hands held in front of their face, almost as if in prayer. A coffin is to the worker's right.

A health worker wearing protective equipment crouches beside the coffin of a suspected Ebola victim during safe burial procedures outside a family home in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Bundibugyo virus is currently driving a large Ebola disease outbreak.

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By Erin Garcia de Jesús

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