Ebola's Patient Zero, The Child at the Epidemic's Start | FRONTLINE
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On Christmas Day 2013 in Guinea, a 1-year-old boy named Emile came down with a mysterious illness, and a rural community reacted with terror and confusion. In this exclusive video produced by PBS's FRONTLINE, in association with The New York Times, Emile's father recounts how his son, daughter, and pregnant wife died as the Ebola epidemic first spread.
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I've experienced the loss of my partner and my friends, but I can't even imagine the pain that the husband has gone through. I really hope that the future will bring him more happiness.
The moment you realised that these people with such a little facilities to their disposal worked responsibily and informed higher authorities.. where as china...
VLS_levo_sevo True and not many people travel to and from africa unlike china
@@sukhrajsingh-ln1pn in china also virus started from a very remote place like this but spread throughout major city of wuhan and from there to whole world..
VLS_levo_sevo Key difference. Ebola patients get symptoms almost simultaneously as they become contagious. While Covid-19 sufferers can take up to two weeks and be contagious since day 3
@@DanksterPaws actually i just mean that it was immediately reported when symptoms appeared..
@@vineleak7676 i will be the first one to believe me if you get me a reliable source and not any of the american and Australian documentaries with a hidden agenda
His eyes speak. i can't imagine the pain of losing your entire family and watching it helplessly
it is strange to be the first human who will infect thousands of lifes
The strangest thing here is that tree which looks different to all other trees in the forest. It's like it's not suppose to be there
Thing is ebola had already been killing people in the east.... an unlucky child just happened to be infected.... and the string of events that followed..... was a disaster
It’s natural. Can happen to anyone
I hope that researchers have evaluated the poor father since he may carry some natural immunity to Ebola. Certainly he survived an incredible barrage of the virus and still lives(?). Maybe his suffering can be relived if he knows he can help others survive one day.
Well, be reminded, the virus is not airborne, it can only be spread through fluids. Obviously, everyone else, including the three women cleaning the house were infected for most likely being in contact with the infected blood. It is likely to assume he's most likely not immune, but just luckily did not get infected.
I also left out that health care workers removed the poor wife's fetus, and shortly after they fell sick as well.
Maybe they most not eat fruitbats. In another documentary everything is explained there. In the beginning you see a white three there. It was full of bats. The kids and maybe fathers to catched the bats and eats them. Those bats are the carriers of Ebola. This family had eathen a bat that had the Ebola virus in it. That's how it started.
@@eviken1982 wheir which tree
True
As a parent of a small baby it breaks my heart to watch this.
I'm glad to see these FRONTLINE short films addressing the roots of the Ebola outbreak.
I am so sorry he had to go through this. Wishing him lots of strength...
Amazing that the nurse survived. Is the full version available?
Heartbreaking...imagine seeing your own kids dying before you...Best of luck to that father
sad story
wha.. just noticed its in french
The french were colonizers of Africa, and over time, the locals would adopt the language as their own, even creating alternate dialogues of french. French is a VERY useful language in many african countries if you would ever wish to visit. That is if you would "wish" to.
It’s not just French it’s mixed
Yep! For the doctor, not the father though
@@justme-ew3ri It's not mixed actually. The doctor is speaking French, plain and simple. The father on the other hand is speaking one of Guinea's vernacular languages.
yonasco14 That’s what I’m saying
Poor man...
The way the Docter talked about the father and children he didn't seem very sympathetic honestly how the father is still going on after that is astounding losing that many loved ones in such a short amont of times.. Makes you really think about the life you live and the things we complain about from day to day...
"You should not accuse the village, it's God." we--
That breaks a kid's faith for sure.
3:15 Soo nobodys gonna talk about how many birds or bats came out that tree?!?!?!
They are bats and they are responsible for the virus. The first boy in this video got the virus from playing in those trees.
@@jenna637 Oh alright but I was just pointing out how many freaking bats came out the tree it was like whole rounds of them
@Mohamed Mowlid He played underneath it. There must be tons of bat feces below the tree, and that's how he got infected.
Mohamed Mowlid 1 year old & a half, just nearly 2. This is no urban cities, kids that age in Africa is more adaptable than normal kids.
So sad that this family started the day normally & because of on innocent act the baby got the virus. It spread , killed everyone in its path from there.
I am so sick and tired of people blaming Father😭
He wasn't blamed. He was the only survivor in the entire family. The poor man is obviously destroyed by the loss.
Why do the worst things happen all the time to poor people who live in very poor countries? I feel so bad for them we need to help people. This is so unfair 😥
Wow, horrifying.
Wow that’s really sad.
This is heartbreaking and scary, sheeeesh 😬
wow, horrible. imagine members of your family are dying of the same thing constantly and you don't know why. truly a nightmare.
also,what's the background music name? sounds very eerie..
Good Video, but now, Who is The Patient Zero of Corona Virus ?
RealCrime Documentary shrimp seller from Wuhan but she’s probably not the first, just the first we know of
@Hannah Dyson actually it's incubation period can be a whole month.
@SD GAMING It can be a whole month
That guy lost everything.. It’s really heartbreaking to see
Watching this during the COVID-19 pandemic
Recommended by youtube during the coronavirus outbreak. Haiss :(
Shame
Heartbreaking. To the father who lost his children his whole family I'm so sorry to hear of your loss, please know that God didn't do this to your family Jesus loves you and has not forgotten you. Please trust in him. Also please find a bible and read about Job.
JESUS 😢😢😢
May God Bless Them All🙏
Diane, I think you answered your own question...
I feel so bad for the father
Damn. How’d he survive?
How did the father and nurse live 🤔
Oooooooooh 💔💔💔💔
its so hearth touching story of ebola outbreak!
Heartbreaking I can't even begin to imagine what the father went to. I actually had an Ebola scare of my own during the same Ebola outbreak mentioned in this video, I came into contact with another patient in the waiting room at the Royal Adelaide Hospital who developed symptoms consistent with the early stages of Ebola two weeks after returning from a West African country affected by the same outbreak mentioned in this video, and one week later I developed symptoms consistent with the early stages of Ebola. It turned out to be a false alarm it was a severe case of the flu that I had, not Ebola but it was still a terrifying thing to experience. Add to that the unrelated incident when I got a letter from one of the post offices in the US I'm not sure specifically which post office affected by the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, and I actually had to check my letter for anthrax spores.
He was the head of the family of 3 victims of a new disease, and he was lucky enough not to get infected. I'm still baffled by that fact.
I also saw a comment that said he could have some natural immunity for the Ebola virus, which would be dope as fuck since he's the father of the first human to spread the virus almost 40 years after it's discovery.
What do you mean to spread the virus after 40 years? There has been dozens of other small outbreaks in central Africa.
El vato del barrio
Well I haven’t heard of those, thanks media
I know right, out of 4 people, 3 died & he's the only survivor with no infection with Ebola. What's happening....
@@jermaineloreaux5220 ebola infects thru transmission of body fluids. One needs to have direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person.
The sick in a household are predominantly nursed and attended to by the womenfolk in that part of the world.
This can be seen in the many other documentaries on the Ebola outbreak.
A pattern that was evident in the videos was the virus is brought into a family home by the father, husband or father in law and the disease will often end up killing the women of the family.
In this video, Emil was believed to have contracted the virus from bats living on a mango tree just outside of his home. It than infected his sister. Her death was followed by his mothers. The person who than brought this disease to a much more urban location was Emils grandmother. She had decided to travel to the city for medical help once she started falling ill.
The father was not exposed to the virus most probably because he had not acted as a primary care giver to the others.
this is sad dude
why?
How do you know the patient zero and how do you track it?
Counter Kidnapping earliest know case, may or not be the actual patient zero but is the earliest recorded one.
Can someone tell me why the father wasnt affected like the rest of his family?
Africa is a heartbreaking country 😭🥺😢
Do you mean continent
he would be seven this year 2020 i was crying it was so bad and now the corna virus whats next ????????????????!!!!!!!!
A new disease outbreak in 2021?
One day, all these places will be developed and all will be right in the world.
developed? what a fool you are.
it’s Americans who are depriving them
thats a realy realy good movie
that is real
Lol
What I don't understand is how in 2015 and the Internet, these villagers do not have access to basic education. After all that has been taken out of Africa the world community and the individual African governments need to work on infrastructure across Africa. Education would have helped.
Diane Fairfield yea just throw a book at that shiit, that'll get em.
It is because of the colonial countries which have exploited Africa
Very sad. That poor man , loosing his family like that. Ebola is horrible le and has a high death rate and in 3rd world.countries I would think it would be devastating
mann, i still think gengis is gonna hold the highest k/d
I came to see a Terraria boss fight called patient 0. But this isn’t what I wanted, I feel so baaaad D;
Ground Zero, where the first person got Ebola.
What a terrible thing to happen to this family.
Sad😢😢😔😔😔😔🙏🙏🙏
This was my country will before my ancestors moved to Zaire then were sent to England sold as slaves forced to have kids then killed
Guinea?
how can a year old child got infected ebola ? strange ...
Came in touch with the bat 🦇 guano that carries the virus, which was under a tree he was playing by.
Giv em sum watah
.... but how did the baby get it?
joan baczek The mother's blood?
its believed from bat poop
Apparently the kid was playing in a tree about 50 m from their home and its also where the bats live.
Americans planted it in bats
Laila Hernandez proof?
This is basis of non fiction book "hot zone" re Ebola virus. My condolences to father
So basically, literally everyone but emile (the man IN THE THUMBNAIL) have ebola
Emile is the 1 year old baby.
It’s not his fault he had it besides the virus was too small to see so it’s not like he knows he has it.
B god with u
How did he not get infected? He didn't know it was Ebola. So he would have been careless with her blood and stuff??
. . . Except that Ebola was identified in the 70s (or 80s, I can’t remember) 😅
Poor traditional healer was embarrassed to bone
Ggs
Smh he should be punished
Stfu 🙏🙏
Hmmmm, but how did the 1year old child possible get the virus? Was the baby feed bat soup or gorilla soup or what? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
I've read that it could be a tick that had grown abnormalities and bit the child.
Came in touch with the bat 🦇 guano that carries the virus, which was under a tree he was playing by
Pandemics are necessary to contain overpopulation in certain parts of the world where an already starving man doesn't seem to mind having 8 children 🤷♂
It's amazing how there's still people in this world who think that a sickness struck their village because somebody pissed off the Sun God.
"Its god" ? lmao I thought god wasn't evil. Exact opposite.
God never kill everyone, all that is sin
don't use God in this for man made diseases.
@@Ronalpha how is this man-made? So the flu is man-made? Tetanus is man-made? No they're not.
prove that they aren't.
El vato del barrio look it up, they have patents on those diseases. Don’t use assumptions in an argument. People always think that what they feel inside is what really happened in real life
@@Ronalpha Ok they have patents *made* in the 80s-present. But what about those epidemics from the past. Nobody created the virus/bacteria. It appeared randomly from a host to a human. Just as this epidemic, the bat carried the disease and the boy played with it contracting Ebola. The plague was not created in the 1300s. Someone from Asia got bitten by a flea and it all started to get out of control when it reached Europe.
Why should we wory about Ebola when aids and cancer are not cured yet
there is a cure for certain cancers. They just aren't releasing it because they make too much money off of fundraisers and stuff.
PJ Krumholtz Do you really believe that? That doctors just watch children with cancers die painful deaths, when there is an eazy fix for it? I just beat stage 3 cervical cancer and my treatment was different than someone with lung or breast or any other type of cancer and thats because theres no one thing that cures cancer..
I can’t fathom the foolishness of some people. We could have a global pandemic, but let’s just ignore it?! Are you out of your mind?!
you can’t even spell worry correctly...
I think the doctor's develop a new thing that cures cancer maybe I dont know the name but they said its like a trojan horse in the movie when the cancer cells eat it the cells die maybe
but there is like a gazillion people in Africa anyway....