The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014 and believed by scientists to have started in late December with the death of a 2 year old boy, believed to have contracted the virus from bats in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou. It has rapidly become the deadliest occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976. The current epidemic sweeping across West Africa has now killed more than all other known Ebola outbreaks combined. Over 9,000 people have been reported as having died from the disease in six countries; Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the United States and Mali.
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