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Epidemiology's
Fight Against
Ebola 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.
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What topic does this introductory paragraph introduce?

the theory of how viruses spread
• the history of the Ebola virus the story of Emile and his family
the 2014 Ebola outbreak

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the 2014 Ebola outbreak

The paragraph describes Emile as likely patient zero in Guinea and notes that the 2014 outbreak became the most devastating, so it introduces the 2014 Ebola outbreak.