Ebola Is About To Hit Again, Here’s Why It is Different From The Last Outbreak

Ebola, the sound of the word itself sounds like voodoo magic and yet the deadly virus is more powerful than any voodoo curse imagined. The strain of virus that struck terror in Africa ended in a worldwide epidemic the likes of which has never been seen.

1The last major outbreak was in 2014

The last outbreak in 2014 was the worst ever since the discovery of the disease in 1976. Since then for forty years Ebola has continued to rear its ugly head now and then and it seems it has surfaced in Congo and the frightening part is that it is different from the last outbreak although scientists have a new weapon. 

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2Ebola’s outbreak in 2014 was the worst ever

The last Ebola outbreak in 2014 killed more victims than all other outbreaks combined. The virus killed more than 11,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Mali and the US.

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3The largest Ebola outbreak

Ebola has a nasty way of cropping up every few years or so. From 2014 to 2016, it terrorized West Africa and spread as far as the US and Mali killing more than 11,000 people and affecting more than 28,000. Now Ebola seems to have woken up again and this time it is the Democratic Republic of Congo where it has chosen to attack. The region is in throes of an impending outbreak with 20 deaths so far declared by World Health Organization (WHO) estimates. 

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4Why is this one different from others?

The Ebola outbreak in Congo threatens to be different from the 2014 epidemic and here’s why. Till now health officers have used a traditional process called contact tracing to manage and contain the epidemics. 

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