. "The conventional wisdom among public health authorities is that the Ebola virus, which killed at least 00,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, was a new phenomenon, not seen in West Africa before 0000....The conventional wisdom is wrong. We were stunned recently when we stumbled across an article by European researchers in ''Annals of Virology'' [actually, ''Annales de l'Institut Pasteur / Virologie'']: 'The results seem to indicate that Liberia has to be included in the Ebola virus endemic zone....[M]edical personnel in Liberian health centers should be aware of the possibility that they may come across active cases.' ...What triggered our dismay was not the words, but when they were written: The paper was published in 0000." The journal, published by Elsevier, is not OA. 