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Sources:
Ebola
https://www.who.int/health-topics/ebola/
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03719586
https://www.wired.com/story/ebola-is-now-curable-heres-how-the-new-treatments-work/?verso=true
https://www.wired.com/story/an-ebola-vaccine-gets-its-first-real-world-test/
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/clinical-trial-investigational-ebola-treatments-begins-democratic-republic-congo
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004219302287
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1473309918303979
Tuberculosis
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-drug-treatment-resistant-forms-tuberculosis-affects-lungs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/new-antibiotic-approved-for-drug-resistant-tuberculosis/2019/08/14/559d069a-bde6-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/health/tuberculosis-xdr-tb-cure.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02464-0
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/drtb/default.htm
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-approves-new-pill-for-drug-resistant-tb-11565822369
https://www.tballiance.org/news/pa-824-has-new-generic-name-pretomanid
Images:
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https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/six-types-of-viruses-on-white-background-gm838082782-136418499
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ebola-virus-gm509721629-45986612
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/secondary-tuberculosis-in-lungs-and-close-up-view-of-mycobacterium-tuberculosis-gm949160140-259112180
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