Click above to listen to part 3 of Stopping Ebola, featuring Amy Maxmen, senior reporter for Nature magazine, discussing the difficulties of stopping the spread of Ebola in the war-torn jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her most recent piece is “Behind the Front Lines of the Ebola Wars.”

Stopping Ebola:
Part 1: Richard Preston / Ebola Outbreak
Part 2: Richard Preston / Ebola Treatment Fear
Part 3: Amy Maxmen / Ebola Politics
Part 4: Yap Boum / Treating Ebola

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