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Ebola is a wily pathogen: It kills by hijacking the body’s immune response and causing systemic organ failure. While modern supportive care, such as fluid replacement, can boost survival rates, expert...
Ebola is a wily pathogen: It kills by hijacking the body’s immune response and causing systemic organ failure. While modern supportive care, such as fluid replacement, can boost survival rates, experts warn under-resourced medical facilities in Congo struggle to deliver critical, basic intervention.
How Ebola kills -- and what it takes to stop it
How Ebola kills -- and what it takes to stop it
It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force. The kind of care need to knock it out is often not fully available in a lower resource country like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Ebola kills by hijacking the body’s immune response and causing systemic organ failure.
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Modern supportive care, such as fluid replacement, can boost survival rates for Ebola.
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Under-resourced medical facilities in Congo struggle to deliver critical, basic intervention for Ebola.
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The kind of care needed to knock out Ebola is often not fully available in a lower resource country like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Framing · 4 — loaded language surfaced (spin shown, not adopted)
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“Ebola is a wily pathogen”
→ Ebola is a pathogen
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“experts warn”
→ experts say
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“It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force”
→ Ebola is a virus that can cause severe illness
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“The kind of care need to knock it out”
→ The kind of care needed to treat Ebola