Ebola outbreak may have started with 2 year old boy in Guinea

The largest outbreak of Ebola in history was
likely started by a 2 year old boy in a remote
village in Guinea according to researchers. The
boy, called Patient Zero in this outbreak, died
on December 6th 2013 after suffering from
fever, black stool & vomiting. That illness has
now been found to be Ebola
Before he died, he infected his mother, his 3
year old sister, his grandmother and a mid wife
who was caring for him when he was ill. His
mum and sister died before the end of
December 2013 after suffering bleeding
symptoms. His grandmother died January 1st.
The mid-wife died by February 11th but before
dying, she had passed the virus to her family
members who died the following month in
March 2014. Continue...
The virus spread from the Southern Guinea
village to other parts of Africa after villagers
from Sierre Leone and Liberia, who share a
border with the village, attended the
grandmother's burial. Two of the funeral
attendees fell ill and the virus spread from
their families to their villages and to health
care workers and family members taking care of
patients. And one Patrick Sawyer brought it to
Nigeria!
How the child became infected is a biggest
mystery as scientist who have traced the the
outbreak this time say they don't know how the
toddler got infected.
So far, 960 people have died from the virus
while 1,779 people have been infected..