AFP - Experts Watching Sahel For Confirmation Of Possible Spread Of Ebola

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Sylvain Baize, who heads France’s National Reference Center for hemorrhagic fever, said the outbreak “is serious — by all accounts, it is not under control.”

“It’s worrying because it’s the first time Ebola has emerged as a human epidemic in West Africa,” he said.

Baize noted the “wide dispersion” of patients and also a case cluster in the Guinean capital, Conakry, which added to the complexity of tackling the epidemic. Past outbreaks of Ebola have generally happened in remote rural areas, which makes their containment easier.

“That Ebola has found its way to densely populated urban areas is a concern,” Jonathan Ball, a professor of molecular virology at England’s University of Nottingham said. “Large numbers of people living at high density really helps infectious diseases spread.”

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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/12/world/experts-cast-worried-eye-on-ebola-spread/#.U0oclqI1_3M

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1. I wonder if it found an urban reservoir species

[Nihil]

2. "Plague II - The Rat Strikes Back"