Ebola 'Patient Zero': How Outbreak Started from Single Child

When Ebola virus came for the first time to a small village in Guinea, the victim was a toddler, who later became known to the world as Patient Zero. His name was Emile Ouamouno. "Emile liked to listen to the radio, and his sister liked to carry babies on her back," Emile’s father, Etienne Ouamouno, told Suzanne Mary Beukes, a communication officer for the United Nations' children's agency, UNICEF. The disease detectives who traced the Ebola outbreak back to the toddler still don't know how he got infected, according to their report published in the Oct. 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More http://ift.tt/1q9g6lL