Africa: How We Found That Sites of Previous Ebola Outbreaks Are at Higher Risk Than Before

How We Found That Sites of Previous Ebola Outbreaks Are at Higher Risk Than Before

by Irena Hwang and Al Shaw

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Series: Roots of an Outbreak

How the Next Pandemic Could Start

As a devastating outbreak of Ebola spread to Tommy Garnett’s homeland of Sierra Leone in 2014, the conservationist had a hunch.

Garnett long lamented the deforestation from…