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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on November 14th, 2014. I'm Steve Murski. We're going to talk about Ebola again with two experts. Stanford's David

Rellman, an infectious disease specialist, will offer some thoughts later in the episode.

But first, our health and medicine correspondent, Dina Fine Marin, was at the recent annual

conference of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans.

On November 5th, she spoke to Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders.

He's been on the front lines against Ebola in Guinea and Liberia.

Last night, there was an Ebola session where you said some very interesting comments

in part related to the mortality that you're seeing in the field right now at the many

Doctors Without Borders clinics.

Can you tell us a little bit more about the age distribution you're

seeing there? Well, what we were presenting last night confirms what people on the ground have

seen for a long time is that young children don't do well with Ebola. The under-fives have

a much higher risk of death than people over the age of five. It seems that older children actually do reasonably well compared to adults,

but the young children do very poorly.

I mean, it's bad, they're dying, and it's also very, very difficult on the teams in the field.

Nobody likes to watch children die, and that takes a toll on the health care workers over time. I know that we've been saying for a while now we don't know about

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