by Carol Hand
Emile was a two-year-old boy living in Meliandou, a village in the West African nation of Guinea. In December 2013, Emile may have been bitten by a fruit bat, a common animal in West Africa. On December 26, he became ill. He died two days later. By January 14, his three-year-old sister, his mother, and his grandmother had also died. No one yet realized it, but researchers now believe Emile was patient zero—the first person to contract and begin spreading the Ebola virus during this outbreak. There have been more than two dozen Ebola outbreaks since the virus’s discovery in 1976. The 2014 outbreak quickly became by far the most devastating.
Excerpt from Epidemiology: The Fight Against Ebola & Other Diseases by Carol Hand published by ABDO Publishing © 2015 ABDO Consulting Group, Inc.
Question
Use the article excerpt to answer the question.
Which transition would best link this paragraph to a section about the effects of
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Ebola on communities and public health responses? A suitable transition might be:
"As the virus began to spread rapidly, the subsequent impact on local communities and the urgent necessity for an organized public health response became increasingly evident."
This transition would effectively connect the narrative about Emile's initial infection and the subsequent spread of Ebola to a discussion on the broader consequences for affected communities and the measures taken to control the outbreak.
