Following that, the speaker discussed the 2014 Ebola epidemic.

Ebola is caused by the

Ebola virus, which spreads when bodily fluids come into contact with it. The Ebola virus
encodes its genetic material in RNA and then hijacks cells in infected humans to bundle viral
RNA into RNA proteins that produce an increasing number of viral particles. Mutations or
random changes along a genome can generate different variants of the same virus. Other variants
can vary in severity and contagiousness. Scientists wanted to identify which Ebola type was
causing the outbreak in Guinea during the 2014 Ebola pandemic in West Africa.