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One clinic in DRC is currently enrolling patients for the Ebola treatment trials, with plans to expand.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because an Ebola flare-up that jumps a porous DRC border into a city or refugee corridor can overwhelm fragile health systems fast, and the only real brakes are limited vaccine stockpiles and rapid-response teams that take days to deploy.
Part of the monitored dynamic Ebola Outbreak Tracking · VUCA INDEX 56/100
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 2JUL 7
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"So far, only one clinic in the DRC is involved in the trial, but there are plans to expand in the coming weeks"
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Extracted JUL 7; approved JUL 8 at 0.50.
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