Tracing the Ebola outbreak

Emile Ouamouno was just two years old and living in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou when he began suffering from a fever, headache and bloody diarrhoea.

Emile was Ebola's patient zero, the first to contract the deadly disease.

Tracing the early stages of the Ebola outbreak, this video animation shows how the virus spread from the village of Meliandou in Guinea.