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Ebola outbreak's 'Patient Zero' identified as a two-year-old boy from Guinea named Emile Ouamouno

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Ebola outbreak's 'Patient Zero' identified as a two-year-old boy from Guinea named Emile Ouamouno

Tue, 2014-10-28 18:19 — mike kraft

THE INDEPENDENT                                                       Oct. 28, 2014

By Adam Withnall

Unicef has identified the first patient to be infected at the start of the current global Ebola outbreak as a two-year-old toddler from Guinea named Emile Ouamouno.

In a study for the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of experts had traced the disease to the village in Guéckédou, in southeastern Guinea, by reviewing hospital documents and speaking to those involved.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ebola-outbreaks-patient-zero-identified-as-a-twoyearold-boy-from-guinea-named-emile-ouamouno-9823513.html

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