Meliandou
Meliandou is a village in
epidemic in West Africa.[1] The patient zero of Ebola was a two-year-old boy who died in 2013. The boy's pregnant mother, sister, and grandmother also became ill with symptoms consistent with Ebola infection and died. People infected by those victims later spread the disease to other villages.[2][3][4][5]
Prior to the Ebola outbreak, the villagers sold their farm produce to the nearby town of Guéckédou.[6] As of October 2014[update], they found themselves unable to sell their products anymore.[6]
See also
References
- PMID 24738640.
- ^ Nassos Stylianou (27 November 2014). "How world's worst Ebola outbreak began with one boy's death". BBC News.
- PMID 24738640.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- WHO. 2014.
- ^ a b Suzanne Beukes (28 October 2014). "Finding Ebola's 'patient zero'". The Guardian.
External links
- High-resolution map of Meliandou area provided by European Union for ReliefWeb
8°37′21″N 10°03′51″W / 8.6226°N 10.0642°W
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