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14 March 2019: Ebola in DRC, a new HIV treatment, and the proposed US budget.

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🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Instead of a regular edition of the Nature Podcast, this week we’ve got an extended News Chat between Benjamin Thompson and Amy Maxmen. They discuss the ongoing Ebola outbreak in DRC, an injectable treatment for HIV, and how the proposed US 2020 budget could affect science.

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0:00.0

You might want to step back from your speaker or remove your headphones.

0:04.1

Yes! I can't. I just can't believe it.

0:08.2

Marks found out his 11.4 million pounds on Lotto.

0:12.2

This is just... I don't...

0:14.6

You know what? I've got tears in my eyes.

0:19.9

Yep, that's 11.4 million.

0:22.7

Lotto.

0:23.5

Will you be the next Christmas millionaire?

0:26.2

The National Lottery.

0:27.2

Rules and procedures apply.

0:28.5

Players must be 18 or over.

0:32.5

Hi listeners, Benjamin here.

0:34.4

I mentioned last week that we weren't going to have a regular edition of the Nature

0:37.5

podcast, but we're very lucky here at Nature as a bunch of our colleagues from across the globe

0:42.4

have joined us in London. One of them is senior reporter Amy Maxman, who's based in San Francisco,

0:47.8

and she's joined me in the studio for a quick news chat. Amy, our first story today is about

0:53.1

Ebola, and listeners, I'm sure you remember the

0:55.8

big West African outbreak that went on between 2014 and 2016, which had a significant death toll

1:01.0

and economic impacts, particularly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. But Amy, there's not been

1:07.3

so much news coverage of what is the second largest outbreak, and that's

1:11.2

currently going on in Central Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, and that started

1:16.7

in August 2018.

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