Abstract:August 2014: The World Health Organization-WHO rates the Ebola epidemics as a world health emergency and considers it the worst outbreak of the virus in history, since it was discovered in 1976. The world health emergencies alternate from time to time and the incidence of the Ebola virus in the eastern region of the African continent has caused over a thousand deaths. In the first week of August alone, according to WHO, 108 new cases were confirmed and 45 deaths were recorded in the four countries most affecte… Show more
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