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MEDICAL: DISEASES: EBOLA :
AFRICA :
COUNTRIES: SIERRA LEONE:
Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Traced Back to a Single Traditional Healer's
Funeral Where 14 Women Were Infected
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Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Traced Back to a Single Traditional Healer's
Funeral Where 14 Women Were Infected
Experts believe spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone came from one funeral 14
women infected at funeral for one traditional healer near Guinea border
Event may have acted as a 'super-spreader' according to US scientists
Funeral took place in Sierra Leone diamond mining community of Koindu
Geneticists traced outbreak by sequencing virus in 78 hospital patients
By Julian Robinson for MailOnline
Published: 02:45 EST, 31 August 2014
Updated: 02:45 EST, 31 August 2014
Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738904/Ebola-outbreak-Sierra-
Leone-traced-single-traditional-healer-s-funeral-14-women-infected.html
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The spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone this summer stemmed from one
traditional healers funeral where 14 women were infected, experts have
claimed.
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Scientists have studied the blood of recent victims and believe the
funeral, in mid-May might have acted as a super-spreader event.
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They say this is comparable to a case in 2003 in a hotel in Hong Kong
where one doctor from China who had SARS infected nine other guests. These
in turn spread the virus within the city and to other countries such as
Canada and Vietnam.
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The New York Times reports that the funeral took place in the
diamond-mining community of Koindu.
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This lies near Gukou in neighbouring Guinea where the outbreak is believed
to have started in December.
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The newspaper reports that the healer was known for treating a mysterious
illness which then turned out to be Ebola.
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Although this had already been the suspected cause, the New York Times
reports that it was confirmed by geneticists at the Broad Institute of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.
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They are understood to have sequenced the virus found in 78 patients
treated in the Kenema Government Hospital in northern Sierra Leone close
to the borders with Guinea and Liberia.
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The research was published in the journal Science.
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Published Online August 28 2014
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1259657
REPORT
Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during
the 2014 outbreak
Stephen K. Gire1,2,*, Augustine Goba3,*,, Kristian G. Andersen1,2,*,,
Rachel S. G. Sealfon2,4,*, Daniel J. Park2,*, Lansana Kanneh3, Simbirie
Jalloh3, Mambu Momoh3,5, Mohamed Fullah3,5,, Gytis Dudas6, Shirlee
Wohl1,2,7, Lina M. Moses8, Nathan L. Yozwiak1,2, Sarah Winnicki1,2,
Christian B. Matranga2, Christine M. Malboeuf2, James Qu2, Adrianne D.
Gladden2, Stephen F. Schaffner1,2, Xiao Yang2, Pan-Pan Jiang1,2, Mahan
Nekoui1,2, Andres Colubri1, Moinya Ruth Coomber3, Mbalu Fonnie3,, Alex
Moigboi3,, Michael Gbakie3, Fatima K. Kamara3, Veronica Tucker3, Edwin
Konuwa3, Sidiki Saffa3, Josephine Sellu3, Abdul Azziz Jalloh3, Alice
Kovoma3,, James Koninga3, Ibrahim Mustapha3, Kandeh Kargbo3, Momoh Foday3,
Mohamed Yillah3, Franklyn Kanneh3, Willie Robert3, James L. B. Massally3,
Sind B. Chapman2, James Bochicchio2, Cheryl Murphy2, Chad Nusbaum2, Sarah
Young2, Bruce W. Birren2, Donald S. Grant3, John S. Scheiffelin8, Eric S.
Lander2,7,9, Christian Happi10, Sahr M. Gevao11, Andreas Gnirke2,, Andrew
Rambaut6,12,13,, Robert F. Garry8,, S. Humarr Khan3,, Pardis C. Sabeti1,2,
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/08/27/
science.1259657.full?sid=cb964cf1-d709-459d-b9e4-b4b6c0b9fbab
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