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FILE - In this March 7, 2015 file photo, a health worker, left, injects a man in his arm with an Ebola vaccine in Conakry, Guinea. In the biggest study to test whether the blood of Ebola survivors helps patients, doctors found the experimental treatment didn’t make a difference and some scientists say it’s time to shelve the approach.  With no licensed treatment for the devastating disease, doctors have sometimes used blood from survivors to treat the sick, hoping its infection-fighting antibodies might help patients defeat the virus. It seemed to help some patients in the past but there was no clear proof. Amid the world’s biggest outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in 2014, scientists decided to put the treatment to the test in Guinea.  (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah, File)

FILE - In this March 7, 2015 file photo, a health worker, left, injects a man in his arm with an Ebola vaccine in Conakry, Guinea. In the biggest study to test whether the blood of Ebola survivors helps patients, doctors found the experimental treatment didn’t make a difference and some scientists say it’s time to shelve the approach. With no licensed treatment for the devastating disease, doctors have sometimes used blood from survivors to treat the sick, hoping its infection-fighting antibodies might help patients defeat the virus. It seemed to help some patients in the past but there was no clear proof. Amid the world’s biggest outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in 2014, scientists decided to put the treatment to the test in Guinea. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah, File)

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