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WHERE IS THE EBOLA
It started in Guinea and spread to Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria.
In two simultaneous outbreaks: one in Nzara (a town in South Sudan) and the other in
Yambuku (Democratic Republic of the Congo), a village near the Ebola River, from which
the disease takes its name, Ebola outbreaks occur intermittently In tropical regions of subSaharan Africa. Between 1976 and 2012, there were 24 outbreaks of Ebola resulting in a
total of 2,387 cases, and 1,590 deaths.
The largest Ebola outbreak to date was an epidemic in West Africa from December 2013 to
January 2016, with 28,646 cases and 11,323 deaths.
On 29 March 2016, it was declared to no longer be an emergency. Other outbreaks in Africa
began in the Democratic Republic of the congo in May 2017 and 2018.