Mapping The Ebola Outbreak

In the concluding half-dozen months in that place accept been 600 cases of Ebola inwards the Congo too in that place accept been over 400 deaths. It is forthwith the minute largest outbreak of the deadly illness inwards Africa.

Reuters has used the storey map format to nation the storey of the illness from its uncovering almost the Ebola river inwards 1976 to the electrical flow time. In Africa, a Virus Spreads Reuters shows where major outbreaks of the illness accept occurred. It too examines closed to of the similarities inwards these locations. For representative Ebola outbreaks oft outset inwards "areas almost to dense, equatorial forests, which brand a natural habitation for the virus".

Ebola tin forcefulness out survive spread past times bats, monkeys, chimpanzees too gorillas. Reuters maps out the attain of these species inwards key Africa. It goes on to exhibit how these areas tin forcefulness out survive used to predict the probable areas where the Ebola virus mightiness appear.

The World Health Organization records the latest figures on the release of cases too the release of deaths from Ebola on its Ebola Situation site. The WHO's technical too full general information on Ebola tin forcefulness out survive accessed here.