Scientists said today that the cause of the
deadly Ebola virus that hit West Africa this
year was a 2 year old boy, known as patient
zero, who played on a tree near a colony of
virus-infested bats in his village in Meliandou,
Guinea. He was the first person to die but
before he died, he infected other family
members, who then spread it to others and
the virus spread into other areas in
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and
Senegal, before moving to the US, UK and
Spain.
This Ebola outbreak is by far the largest ever-
recorded outbreak and it has killed about
7,800 people by Dec. 17, 2014, according to
WHO.
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