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  For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.

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  You're listening to our weekly science news roundup.

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  Let's start with an update on Ebola.

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  Earlier this month, a study published in the Lancet estimated that the outbreak currently surging

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  in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda could become the largest on record.

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  As of June 18th, the official case count was 894 with a death toll of 204. The outbreak,

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  which was first declared in May, is caused by a species called the Bundaboojo virus.

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  This virus is more rare than other species in its family that cause Ebola and currently available treatments

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  and vaccines are not expected to have much effect.

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  Moderna is already working on a targeted vaccine,

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  but even at breakneck speed, the development process is expected to take months.

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