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Controlling the Ebola virus outbreak at the source in West Africa is the most effective way to decrease international risk of transmission, a new study of global airline travel patterns shows. The authors used a model that predicts that three people infected with Ebola are predicted to fly from West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) to low-income and lower-middle-income countries every month if no exit screening takes place.

Original research paper published in The Lancet on October 21, 2014.

Names and affiliations of selected authors

Kamran Khan, St. Michael’s Hospital, Ontario