“Ebola outbreak”: few phrases carry more weight in the infectious disease community. Since its discovery in 1976, different strains of Ebola virus have struck repeatedly across Africa, leaving devastated communities and persistent questions about transmission, treatment and response in its wake.
Four experts from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute gathered to address this specific Ebola strain and current outbreak, drawing on lessons from previous outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and examining it at a more microscopic level to understand how it operates.
Read more about Old Lessons, New Outbreak: Experts Speak on the Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak.
