A new study raises the terrifying possibility that the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa may have been larger than anyone realized.
During the height of the crisis, the military quarantined whole villages, and so many people were dying very painful and very visible deaths that there wasn't enough time to bury them. At the time, the idea that there might be a significant number of people infected with the virus but with minimal or even no symptoms was not something that public health officials had much time to think about. This may have been an important oversight.
