(Adds details on Cuban deployment) Oct 20 (Reuters) - Global health authorities are struggling to contain the worlds worst Ebola epidemic since the disease was identified in 1976. The virus has killed more than 4,500 people. (Graphics: graphics.thomsonreuters/14/ebola/ index.html) Here is a timeline of the outbreak: March 22: Guinea confirms a previously unidentified hemorrhagic fever, which killed more than 50 people, is Ebola. March 30: Liberia reports two Ebola cases; suspected cases reported in Sierra Leone. April 1: Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns the epidemics spread is unprecedented. A World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman calls it relatively small still. April 4: Mob attacks Ebola treatment center in Guinea.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:58:23 +0000
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