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Temporal and spatial analysis of the 2014-2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa.

Carroll, Miles W Matthews, David A Hiscox, Julian A Elmore, Michael J Pollakis, Georgios Rambaut, Andrew Hewson, Roger García-Dorival, Isabel Bore, Joseph Akoi Koundouno, Raymond ...

Published in Nature

West Africa is currently witnessing the most extensive Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak so far recorded. Until now, there have been 27,013 reported cases and 11,134 deaths. The origin of the virus is thought to have been a zoonotic transmission from a bat to a two-year-old boy in December 2013 (ref. 2). From this index case the virus was spread by human...