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How to keep Ebola patients alive

NPR | By Jonathan Lambert

Published May 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM EDT

Ebola kills roughly half the people it infects, but that has more to do with the kind of care patients can access, rather than something inherent to the virus itself.

Jonathan Lambert

Jonathan Lambert is a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk, where he covers the wonders of the natural world and how policy decisions can affect them.

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