Daily briefing: What it will take to stop the spiralling Ebola outbreak

You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here . A health worker at a hospital in Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo asks for help in receiving a person suspected of having Ebola. Credit: Glody Murhabazi/AFP via Getty The tally of people with suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola in central Africa is rocketing upwards with shocking speed, but specialists say that we have the tools to control it thanks to hard-won expertise gained during previous Ebola epidemics. They recommend: • Ramping up testing and contact tracing — a challenge in regions with limited testing capacity and other public-health resources. • Providing supportive care, such as keeping people hydrated, which can drastically increase the chance of surviving even the Bundibugyo species of ebolavirus, for which there is no vaccine or targeted treatment. • Building trust with communities to implement preventive measures that can sometimes clash with cultural traditions, such as washing or touching a body before burial. Nature | 8 min read Source: WHO and WHO disease outbreak news reports/Resolve to Save Lives A clinically dead 53-year-old man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a liver from a genetically modified pig . …