Ebola

     A very large topic going around the world right now is the virus disease Ebola. Ebola was first brought out in late March when it was recognized. In Africa the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea was first to report the outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in four southeastern districts: Guekedou, Macenta, Nzerekore and Kissidougou. They figured that neighboring countries to Guinea had some people with Ebola in it. These two countries were Liberia and Sierra Leone. The number of people started to grow and it started to get spread out more around Guinea. By April 1, 2014 there were 122 probable cases and 80 deaths due to Ebola. After the whole month of April it was reported that now there was 221 cases of Ebola and 146 deaths. Nothing too interesting happened during the time period from April 30 from August 30 except for more countries reporting that they have the disease in them and new numbers of reported cases and deaths. These other countries were Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. On the date of August 28th it was reported that for Guinea had 648 cases of Ebola, including 482 laboratory-confirmed cases, and 430 deaths. Liberia had reported 1378 clinical cases of Ebola, including 322 laboratory-confirmed cases, and 694 deaths. Sierra Leone had reported 1026 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola, including 935 laboratory-confirmed cases, 422 deaths. Finally, Nigeria, they had 17 suspect cases, including 13 laboratory-confirmed cases, and 6 deaths.

      On September 6th it was to believed that Ebola was in the U.S but there were no confirmed cases. Many other countries had no new reported cases of people with Ebola near the end of September. On September 30th it was the first case of Ebola found in the United States. After this was found out U.S went heavy on checking flights that were coming from Nigeria, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. On October 10th a health care worker in Texas had symptoms of the disease. On the 23rd of October their was case of Ebola in NYC. On November 5th there was a update and it stated that the cases of Ebola are getting less and less. 

     So, what are your thoughts on the topic of Ebola? Pleases leave your opinion in the comments. 

Source:http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/index.html