Inside STAT: Why is Ebola affecting so many young people?

Epidemiologists studying Ebola's spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are racing to solve a mystery: Why have so many children been infected during the ongoing outbreak? Typically, young kids don't make up a big proportion of cases in an Ebola outbreak. But in the first two weeks of October, nearly 60 percent of the newly reported cases in and around Beni — the outbreak's current hot spot — were kids under the age of 16, the WHO's Dr. Peter Salama tells STAT. Some of those infected were just infants. "It is unusual for this outbreak and it is unusual in previous outbreaks ... to see this proportion of kids,” Salama says. STAT's Helen Branswell has the story — read here.