PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi reddit, my name is Gene, and the results of our cross-sectional serosurvey indicates that many Ebola cases were minimally symptomatic and likely undetected during the Sierra Leone outbreak – Ask Me Anything!

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Hi Reddit,

My name is Gene Richardson and I am and infectious disease physician and anthropologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I use biosocial approaches to conduct research on infectious disease epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.

I recently published an article titled “Minimally Symptomatic Infection in an Ebola ‘Hotspot’: A Cross-Sectional Serosurvey” in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The study provides further evidence that Ebola, like many other viral infections, presents with a spectrum of clinical manifestations, including minimally symptomatic infection. The findings also suggest that a significant portion of Ebola transmission events may have gone undetected during the recent outbreak in West Africa.

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">PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi reddit, my name is Gene, and the results of our cross-sectional serosurvey indicates that many Ebola cases were minimally symptomatic and likely undetected during the Sierra Leone outbreak – Ask Me Anything!