Ebola outbreak accelerating rapidly

As many as 500,000 people could be infected with the Ebola virus by the end of January, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HISTORY OF CONTAGION
Year  Country  Died Survived

1976
1976
1976
1977
1979
1990
1989-90
1994
1994
1995
1996-97
1996
1996
2000-01
2001-02
2001-03
2004
2004
2007
2007-08
2008
2008-09
2011
2012
2012-13
2014†

Zaire*
Sudan
Britain
Zaire*
Sudan
U.S.
Philippines
Gabon
Ivory Coast
Zaire*
Gabon
South Africa
Russia
Uganda
Gabon
Congo
Sudan
Russia
DRC
Uganda
Philippines
DRC
Uganda
DRC
Uganda
DRC,
Guinea,
Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone

280
38
151
133
0
1
1
0
22
12
0
4
0
3
31
21
0
1
250
65
66
31
1
1
1
0
224
201
53
12
200
35
7
10
1
0
187
77
37
112
0
6
15
17
5
7
13
23
3
3
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1976-2013
32%
2014
68%
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Since being identified in 1976, Ebola has claimed 4,218† lives – 68% of them this year

Sudan
Uganda
South
Africa
Nigeria
Senegal
Guinea
Sierra
Leone
Cote
d’Ivoire
Liberia
United
States
Russia
Britain
Philippines
Congo
Gabon

DRC(Zaire)

2,670

2,748 (includes infected)

1000km
621 miles

Ebola virus

Sources: CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), WHO, healthmap.org, wire agencies
*became Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1997    †as of Sep 21