Peter Grant: "Ebola - are officials concealing its spread?"

Peter Grant, at his Bayou Renaissance Man blog, discusses a concerning story that suggests that Ebola might have spread to Tanzania, but Tanzania officials won't admit it. Grant relates: "The World Health Organization issued an extraordinary statement Saturday raising concerns about possible unreported Ebola cases in Tanzania and urging the country to provide patient samples for testing at an outside laboratory." Tanzanian officials say that a suspicious death of a doctor that returned from an area within the Ebola outbreak zone was not due to Ebola, but won't submit samples for testing by an independent lab as required by international treaty. Grant adds: "What's more, if there have been cases in Tanzania, the odds are very good indeed that there have also been more cases in nearby countries - Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi."

Additional reading: "Tanzania is being cagey about suspected Ebola cases, WHO warns"--Ars Technica.