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Outbreak traced to first victim
The current Ebola outbreak has been traced back to its first victim – a two-year-old boy called Emile Ouamouno from Guinea – may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats.
Trial raises hopes for cheaper rotavirus vaccine
In a phase 3 trial, Rotavac, a rotavirus vaccine developed by an Indian company with help from an international partnership, showed about the same...