Ebola Outbreak Likely Started With One Person
NBC News / TIME | 28 August 2014
Findings from new genetic analysis
The Ebola virus outbreak that’s
ravaging West Africa probably started with a single infected person, a
new genetic analysis shows.
This West African variant can be
traced genetically to a single introduction, perhaps a person infected
by a bat, researchers report in the journal Science.
Their study paints a
remarkably detailed picture of how the virus spread from Guinea to
Sierra Leone and Liberia in an outbreak that’s taken the lives of more
than 1,500 people — including five of the researchers who worked on the
report.
One thing is clear — it is definitely being spread by people, not by animals repeatedly infecting people, the researchers say…
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