Tag: U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

How Ebola Spread In Western Africa, 2013-2015

Late in 2013, a novel variant of the Ebola virus emerged in Western Africa to start what would become the largest human epidemic on record. In a study published December 9th in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers used genome sequencing to trace the introduction and spread of the virus in Liberia–the second worst-affected country. The … Read more