How Ebola Ended up on our Door Step. ZoomCharts Data Visualization
Ebola is the disease that caught the world by surprise and brought the international medical community together with one common goal – to stop the spread of the virus ASAP.
Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever known for it’s highly contagious nature. Once exposed to the virus, symptoms usually develop within 2 to 21 days. Symptoms include weakness, fever, aches, diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain. Other symptoms may include rash, red eyes, chest pain, throat soreness, difficulty breathing or swallowing and both internal and external bleeding. If symptoms are not treated, more often than not will result in death – as with 50 to 90 percent of all cases to date. The virus is spread through unprotected human contact where exposure to infected bodily fluid occurs. In a rural city like that of Guinea, West Africa, where communities live in close quarters with limited medical access the virus has a breeding ground of epidemic proportion.
The first case was reported in December 2013, after a 2-year old boy had died from his fever. By March 18th 2014 that number reached 25. On March 24th, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that Liberia and Sierra Leone had also reported a record number of Ebola cases. The virus had officially gone viral. On October 1st 2014 the first case was reported in the US. – it had left West Africa.
Tracking the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa 2014
Graphs Counting the Cases and Casualties
Graph 1: Shows the explosive and exponential increase of the number of reported Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone between March 25th 2014 to Dec 10th 2014.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Graph 2: Shows the explosive and exponential increase of the number of reported Ebola cases and casualties in Guinea between March 25th 2014 to Dec 10th 2014.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Graph 3: Shows the explosive and exponential increase of the number of reported Ebola cases and casualties in Liberia between March 25th 2014 to Dec 10th 2014.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Graph 4: Shows the explosive and exponential increase of the number of reported Ebola cases and casualties in Sierra Leone between March 25th 2014 to Dec 10th 2014.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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