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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Treating Ebola

    An American doctor who was infected by ebola in Africa is now being treated in America. But before he left Africa, he was given an experimental drug that seems to have greatly improved his condition. Why isn’t that drug available to everyone infected with the disease?

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 4, 2014 • 1 min read

    An American doctor who was infected by ebola in Africa is now being treated in America. But before he left Africa, he was given an experimental drug that seems to have greatly improved his condition. Why isn’t that drug available to everyone infected with the disease? And scientists have come forward saying that the technology to develop an ebola vaccine exists. So why don’t we have an ebola vaccine?

    The full episode

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    Treating Ebola, Broken Windows Policing, and Hate-Watching TV
    1. 0:00Treating EbolaYou’re reading this
    2. 7:49PTSD Claims
    3. 16:22Texas Death Row Innocence
    4. 25:50Broken Windows
    5. 33:33Data-driven Sentencing
    6. 42:13TV Roundup
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Daniel Bausch

      associate professor of tropical medicine at Tulane University.

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    The full episode

    1 of 6
    Treating Ebola, Broken Windows Policing, and Hate-Watching TV
    1. 0:00Treating EbolaYou’re reading this
    2. 7:49PTSD Claims
    3. 16:22Texas Death Row Innocence
    4. 25:50Broken Windows
    5. 33:33Data-driven Sentencing
    6. 42:13TV Roundup
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand