Imperial College Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/imperial-college/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Imperial College Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/imperial-college/ 32 32 Ebola super spreaders identified https://jjcornish.com/2017/02/ebola-super-spreaders-identified/ Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/02/ebola-super-spreaders-identified/ Analysis by the National Academy of Sciences in London finds a tiny handful of people caused the majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola. Nearly two thirds of the cases were infected by just 3% of people who contracted the deadly disease. It is hoped the study of the super spreaders of […]

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]]> Analysis by the National Academy of Sciences in London finds a tiny handful of people caused the majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola.

Nearly two thirds of the cases were infected by just 3% of people who contracted the deadly disease.

It is hoped the study of the super spreaders of the Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11 000 people in three West African countries in 2014 and 2015 will help contain the next outbreak.

Researchers at the Imperial College in London looked at cases in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.

By examining where and when cases emerged, they were able to establish  how many people the infected patients passed the disease on to.

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