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Efforts to protect gorillas from Ebola in the DRC

The staff of a wildlife preserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo are trying desperately to keep their gorillas from exposure to Ebola. Gorillas can get it and almost all of them die from it.

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Gabrielle Emanuel
Gabrielle Emanuel covers Global Health and Development for NPR's Science Desk.

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