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Tracing Ebola's breakout to an African 2-year-old

Shiloh

Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...breakout-to-an-African-2-year-old-5679016.php


Tracing Ebola's breakout to an African 2-year-old
Researchers suspect outbreak began with Dec. deaths of family
NEW YORK TIMES
August 9, 2014

A Doctors Without Borders staffer enters an area where patients confirmed or suspected of having Ebola were being treated in southeastern Guinea earlier this year. Thousands more health workers are needed, experts say.

Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in Gu?ck?dou, in southeastern Guinea. Bordering Sierra Leone and Liberia, Gu?ck?dou is at the intersection of three nations, where the disease found an easy entry point to the region...
 
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