IT first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, in Nzara, Sudan, and Yambuku in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).This is Ebola, a viral disease which has now killed over 10,000 people in West Africa.
As of March 28, this year, Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) had claimed 10, 413 deaths from the 25,065 reported cases in the hardest hit countries Liberia, Serria Leone and Guinea.
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