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More than 500 healthcare staff are among the over 11,200 people killed in West Africa by the worst recorded outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever, which erupted in Guinea in December 2013 and continues to claim lives. As the Associated Press reports, some members of the public health...

In August 2014, the WHO declared it a public health emergency of worldwide concern. A press release recalled scenes from the worst of the crisis, including “gates locked at overflowing treatment centers, patients dying on the hospital grounds”, before extolling...