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From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind

the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. Today, some good news. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo seems to be coming

to an end, finally. Since the outbreak started in August 2018, over 2,000 people have died. But now,

infection rates are measurably slowing down.

Plus, in other good news, a vaccine for Ebola is likely to get approved by the European Commission very soon.

That means that there is now a potential prospect of substantial reduction of future outbreaks.

To learn more about these important developments,

I spoke to Pardis Abetti,

who is a cutting-edge biologist at Harvard and at the Broad Institute.

Pardis was actually in West Africa during the 2014 Ebola outbreak

researching the disease on which she's made important scientific contributions.

I started by asking her exactly how the Ebola vaccine works.

Ebola is an RNA virus.

So some viruses are made of DNA and some are made of RNA.

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