Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden writes in Awareness Times: Reflecting on Dr. Khan’s Findings on Ebola. Excerpt:
I have carefully read through a July 2014 scientific paper published by CDC, in which a team including late Dr. Sheik Umarr Khan revealed their discovery of signs of active (IgM) Ebola Virus infection in the MRU subregion from as far back as the year 2006.
According to the paper, between October 2006 to October 2008, almost 9% of a sample of Sierra Leone, Guinea & Liberia patients suffering from strange unknown fevers, showed signs of active Ebola Virus (EBOV) infection in their blood.
I am intrigued but not amazed. I am not surprised because this fits perfectly into an assumption I had made since the time I realised both husbands of the two initial female Ebola cases had not gotten infected with Ebola; despite them having been closely involved with caring for their Ebola-stricken wives who went on to die of acute Ebola infection.
Could certain close-contact relatives of Ebola patients be escaping Ebola infection because they had immunity from earlier Ebola Virus infection they had themselves earlier fallen ill from; but overcame and survived?
According to writings of late Dr. Khan's team, "This presumptive diagnosis of EBOV infection extends the Ebola Virus geographic region to Sierra Leone and the surrounding region."
The scientific paper is saying Ebola has not been geographically limited to only East & Central Africa but has also been around the West African MRU region where it has been quietly infecting humans for years now - at least from October 2006.