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In Testimony, Robert Garry Declines To Rule Out That Researchers Brought Ebola To West Africa In 2014[...]

In testimony supplementing his in-person statements, Garry was asked by the Committee’s Senator Marshall to deny that Ebola could have been brought from central Africa to Kenema, Sierra Leone, where his organisation, the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), operated from.

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Garry’s testimony provides new insights into the possibility that the VHFC’s research facility in Kenema, Sierra Leone, was the source of the Ebola epidemic that catastrophically struck West Africa in 2014. The 2014 epidemic was caused by a then-new variant of Ebola virus, now known as the Makona strain, and it led to 30,000 Ebola cases and over 11,000 recorded deaths, mainly in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.

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