The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history is happening right now
by Susannah Locke
Vox.com
June 26, 2014
The deadliest Ebola outbreak in recorded history is happening right now. The outbreak is unprecedented both in the number of cases and in its geographic scope. And so far, it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down.
The outbreak has now hit three countries: Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. And the virus — which starts off with flu-like symptoms and often ends with horrific hemorrhaging — has infected almost 600 people and killed an estimated 338 since this winter, according to the most recent numbers from the World Health Organization.
On June 23, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders sent out a distress call. As the only aid organization treating people with Ebola, the group said it was “overwhelmed,” that the epidemic was out of control, and that it couldn’t send workers to new outbreak sites without getting more resources.
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