Scott Dowell
Scott Dowell
cases faced order
When we landed, we were faced with an outbreak on the order of 300 cases
dozen half recorded
There's been a half dozen Ebola outbreaks in the world -- ever recorded -- so everything you do is groundbreaking,
again amazing five genetic sequence virtually virus
It's amazing we can have an outbreak in one place, then some five years later, have the virus show up again -- but with virtually the same kind of genetic sequence as the first virus,
chance
I don't know if I'll ever get the chance to go out there again,
europe far seeing spread
Now that we're seeing it in a place that straddles Europe and Asia, it's different. It's spread so far geographically.
ability acquiring cases human learn mean opportunity transmit virus worry
Hundreds of undetected cases would mean there's that much more opportunity for this virus to learn to be transmissible. With every case, we worry about the possibility of the virus acquiring the ability to transmit from human to human.