Tracking Ebola's Path of Contagion

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 24, 2014

Vanity Fair contributor Jeffrey Stern discusses the Ebola epidemic and investigates how the deadly virus escaped detection for three months and why the massive international effort has so far failed to contain it. For the article “Hell in the Hot Zone,” in the October edition of Vanity Fair, he travels to Meliandou, a remote Guinean village and the likely home of Patient Zero, Stern tracks the virus’s path—and the psychological contagion that is still feeding the worst Ebola outbreak in history.

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