The Guinean village widely viewed as Ebola's Ground Zero, where the first proven patient, a two-year-old boy, fell ill and died in December last year, has been cracked to the core. Meliandou, a small village at the top of a forested hill reached by a rutted red earth track, is known throughout the world as the birthplace of the most recent Ebola outbreak. Today villagers here are in debt, stigmatized, hungry and still angry and deeply suspicious about who or what brought the disease that has devastated their lives. A young girl plays with hair in the Guinean village of Meliandou, some 400 miles south-east of Conakry, Guinea, believed to be Ebola's ground zero
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The recent Ebola outbreak believed to have started in Meliandou, Guinea
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Emile Ouamouno, two, who died of Ebola last December is 'Patient Zero'
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The Ebola outbreak has left the small village and its residents broke
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Many still do not understand what Ebola is and why it has hit their home
It is a question scientists have yet to answer conclusively, although they have come to @placeholder to test great apes and bats as possible sources.