A study published by the Northeastern University in Boston has revealed that Ghana is the highest nation at risk of recording the next outbreak of the Ebola Virus.

The study was published on 6 October, but had been conducted earlier and had found that several nations in the West African sub-region, as well as some other nations with high international air traffic all stood at risk of recording the epidemic.

The countries at risk of transmission aside Ghana included The United States of America, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Belgium, Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Lebanon, and Germany.

You might notice that the USA, Nigeria, and Senegal have all contracted the virus since the conduction of the study.

The study stated that these nations are likely to contract the virus by the end of October 2014.

The research gave three factors to calculate likelihood of transmission; passenger flow from area of outbreak, case numbers, and the duration of incubation time.

With Ghana being a major transit point in West African air travel, as well as an unofficial travel port for UN case workers in the sub-region, the belief is that the risk of an outbreak is incredibly high.

The projections were premised on the rate of infection being steady in the infected countries.

Looking at the countries which have been infected since the study was conducted, and the other factors mentioned it looks like Ebola is a much more realistic threat than we might have anticipated.

ArchBishop Duncan Williams recently made the same prediction, and it’s somewhat interesting that a scientific research has surfaced with more or less the same findings just a few days later.

Seems science and religion are in sync for once, and we should be a lot more afraid than we are now; an outbreak of the deadly virus looks imminent.

But we just might dodge this bullet; we’ve always been a lucky nation who escapes a lot of the ills plaguing many other countries in the sub-region.