Blood Test Might Predict Who Can Survive Ebola, Boston University Reveals

The Ebola outbreak that spread across western Africa in 2014 ultimately killed more than 11,000 people. In the Republic of Guinea, the epicenter of the epidemic, around 60 percent of those infected with Ebola died.

While the outbreak taught physicians and scientists much about Ebola, it’s not clear why some survived and others didn’t.

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