Ebola's exceptionally high death rate is not inherent to the virus.
High-quality supportive care can help keep patients alive, but that care is often out of reach for people at the epicenters of outbreaks, at least those who can't be airlifted to a U.S. hospital.
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It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force. The kind of care need to knock it out is often not fully available in a lower resource country like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
