Africa’s missing Ebola outbreaks – podcast

In this audio version of an in depth article from The Conversation, hear about how the Cold War, dictators and cover-ups all conspired to bury evidence of past outbreaks of Ebola, making the deadly disease that much harder to handle during the 2014 outbreak that killed 11,000 people.

You can read the text version of this article here. It’s read by Gemma Ware for The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast.

The music in this is Night Caves, by Lee Rosevere from the Free Music Archive. A big thanks to City University London’s Department of Journalism for letting us use their studios to record.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

Derek Gatherer held an Early Stage Career Grant (ESCG) from Lancaster University to study the serology of Ebolavirus. He participated in the WHO serology diagnostics programme co-ordinated by the National Institute of Biological Standards & Controls (NIBSC).