Posted on 08/10/2014 2:06:05 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
A two-year-old boy from a remote village in Guinea was 'patient zero' in the deadliest-yet Ebola outbreak, epidemiologists believe.
The boy from the village of Meliandou, Guéckédou province, suffered with fever, black stools and vomiting for just four days until he died on December 6.
Seven days later, his mother died too, followed by his three-year-old sister, who fell sick on Christmas Day and was dead before she could see the New Year.
Guéckédou sits by the borders with both Sierra Leone and Liberia. In a region where borders are porous, it gave the Ebola virus a route into three nations where medical infrastructure is under strain at the best of times.
Researchers charted the spread to nearby communities by two mourners at the funeral of the original victim's grandmother, who died January 1, and the village midwife, who died February 2, but not before infecting one of her relatives who had cared for her.
But it wasn't until March that the mystery sickness was recognised as Ebola and, by that time, dozens of people had died in eight communities in Guinea and suspected cases were emerging in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Nine months after the first suspected case, described in The New England Journal of Medicine, and the West African Ebola outbreak, centred on Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, is the worst in history with nearly 1,000 victims so far.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday it is an international health emergency likely to continue spreading for months.
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Well, there you go.
Blame it on someone who can’t speak for himself.
He was gay too....
How would a 2 year old contract it first?
Since his mother was also infected, perhaps SHE infected him?
That would make sense. Just because he died first doesn’t mean he caught it first. His immune system wouldn’t be equal to an adult’s.
There is no such thing as a patient zero in a hot humid chaotic 3rd world nation sitting 10 degrees north of the equator. It is so hot there you can’t even think straight.
In these kind of conditions Ebola just happens and mutates when it mutates
Those pictures prove without a doubt how medical workers are getting infected. Protective clothing my aunt fanny. More like if I put on this yellow apron, I’ll look important. Those people walking through the muck are tracking the virus further. Idiots all.
Apparently Madrid was jealous America brought in two ebola cases so they had to get one, too. More idiots. “Leaders” are doing everything they can to spread it to the four corners of the world.
I don’t know what kind of facility the priest and nun are being treated in, in Spain, but the Americans are being treated at a special center created for just that purpose 12 years ago, to treat CDC employees, military, and other people working with diseases like Ebola.
In the book, The Hot Zone, the first patient visits a cave where the bats that carry Ebola congregate. They don't know exactly what he did - touched guano, cut his hand on something, who knows. Days later, he had ebola.
It is easy to imagine a child picking up an animal or putting a dirty hand in his mouth.
Since his mother was also infected, perhaps SHE infected him?
Or she cleaned up after him or washed him and got it. It really doesn't matter who got it from whom. They're all dead now and the number of infected keeps going up.
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