Guinea: How Africa And Africans Are Responding To The Ebola Crisis

By: Farai Gundan (Contributor)

In the second installation of this 3-part series, we go back to the genesis of the 2014 outbreak to understand the dynamics, particularly at the micro-level, that shaped the Ebola narrative as it unfolded each day. We take you to Guinea, a West African country that nestles on the coast along the Atlantic Ocean and shares its southern border with Sierra Leone, and Liberia. According to results from an epidemiological investigation published in the October 9 issue of theNew England Journal of Medicine, a 2-year-old toddler, in Meliandou, Guinea was reportedly identified as “Patient Zero” or the first case that sparked the Ebola outbreak in this particular region of West Africa.

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