Meliandou Explained

Meliandou is a village in Guéckédou Prefecture, in the Nzérékoré Region of southern Guinea. Medical researchers believe that the village was the location of the first known case of Ebola virus disease in the epidemic in West Africa.^[1] The patient zero of Ebola was a two-year-old boy who died in 2013. The boy's pregnant mother, sister, and grandmother also became ill with symptoms consistent with Ebola infection and died. People infected by those victims later spread the disease to other villages.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Prior to the Ebola outbreak, the villagers sold their farm produce to the nearby town of Guéckédou.^[6], they found themselves unable to sell their products anymore.^[6]

See also

• Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea

External links

• High-resolution map of Meliandou area provided by European Union for ReliefWeb

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Notes and References

1. Baize. Sylvain. Pannetier. Delphine. Oestereich. Lisa. Rieger. Toni. Koivogui. Lamine. Magassouba. N'Faly. Soropogui. Barrè. Sow. Mamadou Saliou. Keïta. Sakoba. De Clerck. Hilde. Tiffany. Amanda. 2014-10-09. Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea. New England Journal of Medicine. en. 371. 15. 1418–1425. 10.1056/NEJMoa1404505. 24738640 . 0028-4793. free.
2. Web site: How world's worst Ebola outbreak began with one boy's death. Nassos Stylianou . 27 November 2014. BBC News.
3. Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea — Preliminary Report. 16 April 2014 . 10.1056/NEJMoa1404505 . Baize . Sylvain . Pannetier . Delphine . Oestereich. Lisa. Rieger. Toni. New England Journal of Medicine . 24738640 . 371 . 15 . 1418–25. free .
4. News: 0362-4331 . Grady . Denise . Sheri . Fink . Tracing Ebola's Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old . The New York Times . 2014-08-09 . 14 August 2014.
5. Web site: The first cases of this Ebola outbreak traced by WHO. who.int. WHO. 1st-chain. fr. png. 2014.
6. Web site: Finding Ebola's 'patient zero'. Suzanne Beukes. 28 October 2014. The Guardian.