Historical Explainer

In the wake of yet another deadly outbreak of Ebola virus throughout Central Africa, with roughly 2,500 cases and 1,000 confirmed deaths, the systematic failures of much modern African infrastructure are clear. Since 1976, when the virus was first discovered, there have been approximately twenty-five outbreaks of Ebola, with fatality rates ranging from 25%, to as high as 90%, however, Western Africa’s 2014 to 2016 outbreak took more lives than all its other epidemics combined