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What is involved here? The death of 2k people? Or the ending of the outbreak?
Logically, the author appears to clearly referring to the latter: the end of the Ebola outbreak. But grammatically, it seems to be the former. Do you have the same feeling as you read "but involved the first widespread use of a vaccine against the virus"?
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World’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak ends in Democratic Republic of the Congo
The epidemic killed more than 2,000 people — but involved the first widespread use of a vaccine against the virus.
Source: Nature 26 JUNE 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01950-0
Logically, the author appears to clearly referring to the latter: the end of the Ebola outbreak. But grammatically, it seems to be the former. Do you have the same feeling as you read "but involved the first widespread use of a vaccine against the virus"?
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World’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak ends in Democratic Republic of the Congo
The epidemic killed more than 2,000 people — but involved the first widespread use of a vaccine against the virus.
Source: Nature 26 JUNE 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01950-0
