Ebola's not done with West Africa

This map, dated July 15, shows the number of days since active cases were discovered in the three countries where ebola is still a threat. CDC

SCIENCE  by Nick Stockton                               July 23, 2015

Officially, it’s called the Ebola Outbreak of 2014. But it’s 2015 now, and the disease is still infecting people. For the past two months, that rate was about 15 people a week. But in the past two weeks, the rate has doubled.....

What’s behind the continued spread? Depends on where you go. In Guinea and Sierra Leone, Ebola never died, and the new cases are a continuation of the same strain that first emerged in December of 2013. In Liberia—which declared itself ebola-free on May 12—experts believe the new outbreak was transmitted through sexual intercourse, from latent viral bodies that were alive in a man’s sperm.

In some ways, it’s tougher to stamp out a flicker of disease than it was to handle an apocalypse-sized outbreak. “If you have a big disease center, you have the ability to isolate as many patients as you can,” says Forget. It might not be apparent who is giving the disease to whom, but you can be pretty sure that everyone is in the same place....

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