article_snippet: (CNN)A year ago, when Dr. Stephane Hugonnet was dispatched to Guinea to investigate a series of unexplained deaths, Dr. Stephane Hugonnet had little  idea that Dr. Stephane Hugonnet'd be contending with an outbreak that would quickly spread from a small southern rainforest village, across borders, and around The world.
article_snippet: an outbreak that would quickly spread from a small southern rainforest village, across borders, and around the world, is a year old today.
article_snippet: From there, it spread like wildfire, passing to neighboring villages and beyond when people attended the grandmother's funeral.
article_snippet: But this outbreak was different, Dr. Hugonnet said.
article_snippet: Person-to-person transmission had quickly spread from a rural area to a large urban city," making Person-to-person transmission harder to contain, Person-to-person said.  
article_snippet: And, this outbreak was becoming multi-national; cases were confirmed in Liberia and were suspected in Sierra Leone.
article_snippet: From those early days, this outbreak would mushroom.
article_snippet: Patrick Sawyer case raised fears the virus could spread beyond the countries at the heart of this outbreak.
article_snippet: International flights took this outbreak as far as Spain and the United States.