Template talk:Ebola virus disease epidemic/Archive 1

Color v. black and white

The colorized electron micrograph is pretty, but the strand diameter is only 80 nm. There is no color in the original. We should use the BW image. Glrx (talk) 17:23, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm guessing it's false colour. But, even the ebola virus disease article uses the colour version. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 17:37, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it is false color - somebody (maybe Goldsmith, maybe not) took the original image File:Ebola Virus TEM PHIL 1832 lores.jpg and colored it to get File:Ebola virus virion.jpg. Electron microscopes do not take color images. A red light does not have the resolution to see the virus. I'd much rather have the scientific image. Glrx (talk) 20:38, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

The image has been in use for a few years, and many news sites use this same image like here as a quick identifiable Ebola virus.. Gremlinsa (talk) 19:13, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Categorization of countries in this template

With the epidemic almost gone, there's no longer any point in dividing countries into currently affected / not as sporadic individual cases emerge and the countries pivot between infected and uninfected -- the big division is now between the three countries (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) which have experienced massive persistent outbreaks with thousands of deaths, and those with small outbreaks that were rapidly brought under control, with deaths measured in the tens or less. -- The Anome (talk) 13:09, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Post-Ebola virus syndrome

have added the above article to template due to its increasing importance--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:49, 27 March 2016 (UTC)