What Everything You Need To Know About Ebola In Under 3 Minutes

What Everything You Need To Know About Ebola In Under 3 Minutes

Everything You Need To Know About Ebola In Under 3 Minutes

    DNews

Published on 21 Sep 2014

The current Ebola outbreak is the worst in history, and there are a lot of myths about this virus floating around. Julian is here to figure out what is fact, and what is fiction.

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