The Ebola epidemic infected more than 28,600 people and killed around 11,300 before coming under control last year. The slow international response to the epidemic outbreak was criticised in 2015 by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which first raised the alarm over Ebola, for having created an avoidable tragedy that cost thousands of lives. Superspreaders also fuelled epidemics of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, in 2003 and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012, according to the study. If these superspreaders, who were most likely to be under 15 and over 45, had been identified and quarantined promptly, most Ebola cases could have been avoided, the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience.
Disease 'superspreaders' accounted for nearly two-thirds of Ebola cases, study finds
Monrovia, Liberia, was hit hard during the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. During the epidemic, superspreaders were cited in numerous news stories about Ebola's spread. Using a mathematical model, they reconstructed the transmission network to see what proportion of cases were caused by superspreaders. [How Ebola sped out of control]More than 28,000 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola were reported in West Africa during the outbreak, including more than 11,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Researchers said the study provided a new statistical framework that allowed scientists to measure how important superspreaders were in fueling the epidemic.about the details read more from here
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