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Alumnus Tracks Ebola Outbreak to Ground Zero

Jeffrey Stern '07 returns to campus to share his experiences covering the Ebola outbreak for Vanity Fair.  

In an interview with Ken Rogerson, director of undergraduate studies at the Sanford School of Public Policy, journalist Jeff Stern '07 talks about his recent visit to Guinea. Stern tracked the outbreak of the Ebola virus to the village of Meliandou, where it is believed the virus was passed from a fruit bat to a toddler.

"The underreported part of the story is ecological -- the fact that there's been so much trauma to the land, mining and deforestation, that you have species coming into contact with people that have never really had to spend much time," Stern said. "People have to get used to having new neighbors basically, and those neighbors carry pathogens that we're not used to."

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