Map showing spread of Ebola based on phylogenetic analysis of lineage A from March 2014 and B starting in May/June 2014PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND; MILES CARROLL, MICHAEL ELMORE (WITH PERMISSION FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP)
The ongoing Ebola outbreak is the largest on record. The World Health Organization (WHO) this week (June 17) reported 27,305 confirmed cases, including 11,169 deaths. In an effort to better understand the deadly virus, scientists have mapped the transmission and evolution of Ebola at the epicenter of the 2014 epidemic (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone), providing a detailed look at the virus throughout the first nine months of the outbreak. Together with previously published Ebola sequencing analyses, the results of two independent studies published this week could help health officials better prepare for and control future outbreaks.
In a study published in Nature this week (June 17), Miles Carroll of Public Health England and his colleagues at the European Mobile Lab and elsewhere reported 179 ...
