Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea; Where Ecology Meets Economy

Author(s)
Bausch, D.G., Schwarz, L.
Publication language
English
Pages
5pp
Date published
01 Jul 2014
Publisher
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Health
Countries
Guinea
Link
http://www.plos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pntd.0003056-1.pdf

News of this outbreak engenders three basic questions:
(1) What in the world is Zaire ebolavirus doing in West Africa, far from its usual haunts in Central Africa?
(2) Why Guinea, where no Ebola virus has ever been seen before?
(3) Why now?
We’ll have to wait for the outbreak to conclude and more data analysis to occur to answer these questions in detail, and even then we may never know, but some educated speculation
may be illustrative.