Click above to listen to part 4 of Stopping Ebola, featuring Yap Boum, regional representative for Africa for Epicentre, the research arm of Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Cameroon, discussing the advent of an Ebola vaccine, and new drugs to cure Ebola.

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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