Patient Zero of Ebola Outbreak Was a 2 Year Old African

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

A week later, it killed the boy’s mother, then his 3-year-old sister, then his grandmother. All had fever, vomiting and diarrhea, but no one knew what had sickened them.

Two mourners at the grandmother’s funeral took the virus home to their village. A health worker carried it to still another, where he died, as did his doctor. They both infected relatives from other towns. By the time Ebola was recognized, in March, dozens of people had died in eight Guinean communities, and suspected cases were popping up in Liberia and Sierra Leone  three of the world’s poorest countries, recovering from years of political dysfunction and civil war.

Full Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/world/africa/tracing-ebolas-breakout-to-an-african-2-year-old.html?_r=0

[Prometheus 1,494]

Patient zero stuff is interesting to me.

[Haroon 49,685]

That's so sad The way viruses can go undetected for months and be spreading secretly, and by the time we catch on the web of people it's infected is so large I hope this epidemic doesn't spiral out of control into a pandemic, and that major prevention measures are taken and that a cure is found asap :(

 

Oh and why do they call them like "patient zero" when they're the first person, shouldn't they be called like "patient one" or something?

[capso 0]

Oh my god that is so sad :(

Poor baby :/

[Morphine Prince 110,018]

That's so sad The way viruses can go undetected for months and be spreading secretly, and by the time we catch on the web of people it's infected is so large I hope this epidemic doesn't spiral out of control into a pandemic, and that major prevention measures are taken and that a cure is found asap :(

 

Oh and why do they call them like "patient zero" when they're the first person, shouldn't they be called like "patient one" or something?

Patient zero because they are the first to contract the disease, but then the first person infected by another human would be the first person infected, I think. I'm gonna look more into it. 

[Economy 53,160]

That's so sad The way viruses can go undetected for months and be spreading secretly, and by the time we catch on the web of people it's infected is so large I hope this epidemic doesn't spiral out of control into a pandemic, and that major prevention measures are taken and that a cure is found asap :(

Oh and why do they call them like "patient zero" when they're the first person, shouldn't they be called like "patient one" or something?

maybe cause patient zero wasnt infected by anyone else but rather something else?

Then patient one would be the first infected by someone else? I dont know just guessing here :shrug:

[itsfabio 113]

maybe cause patient zero wasnt infected by anyone else but rather something else?

Then patient one would be the first infected by someone else? I dont know just guessing here

Thats right

[RAMROD 118,117]

Of course it is just wee kid.

And they will dissect him for greater good.

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