Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea

Overview of attention for article published in New England Journal of Medicine, April 2014

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TIL that the current West African Ebola outbreak has been traced to a 2 year old child who died in December 2013.

User Henipah, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 08 Aug 2014

Ebola outbreak in Guinea is a new strain of Ebola Zaire. It is different enough to suggest that this virus was not introduced into Guinea from sub-saharan Africa, but evolved in parallel with EBOV from Gabon and Congo.

User AGreatWind, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 18 Apr 2014