Twisted: Murder solved not by police but a local epidemiologist

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Instead of forensic detectives, epidemiologists seek to solve the murder case of a young gangster found dead in a warehouse infected with Ebola.

Washington Post reported that the victim had been part of a 35-member street gang whose members had turned him into a knife fight. Blood was all over the place of the incident and was presumably flying in close quarters. This means that the assailants were all at risk in contracting Ebola Virus as well as their families, friends and other connections.

Instead of police, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC has launch a search and retrieve party to the entire gang and their connections to be placed in isolation. Enlisted local epidemiologist begun searching slums and drug dens to look for these gang members.

Luckily, search efforts paid off with the help of the Liberian government when almost the entire gang has been put into isolation including the person who held the victim down during the fight. The government promised to support the families of the gang members as well as provide cocaine to the addicted family members to prevent them from experiencing withdrawal syndrome.

However, during the isolation process, one person died of Ebola contracted from stabbing the victim.

Per Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Ebola, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a rare and deadly disease caused by the infection of Ebola virus species. It was first discovered in 1976 near Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The natural host of Ebola is unknown but researchers believe that it is animal-borne and that bats are the most likely reservoir.

Highly contagious, Ebola are transmitted through direct contact - through broken skin or mucous membranes with blood and bodily fluids, objects, infected fruit bats or primates and possibly from semen of a man who has recovered from Ebola.