Scientists Explained How A 2-Year-Boy Caused Ebola Outbreak!

The most likely cause of Ebola outbreak in West Africa was a Two-year-old boy playing near a colony of virus-infected bats, scientists said today.

According to the scientists, the young boy – described as the index case, or patient zero – became infected and was the first to die in his village in Meliandou, Guinea…But before he died, he infected other family members, who then spread it to others and the virus eventually spread into other areas in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal, before moving to the US, UK and Spain. 

According to World-Health-Organization(WHO), The epidemic represents the largest ever-recorded Ebola outbreak, killing 7,800 people by December 17, 2014