Ebola epidemic peaks
December 28, 2014
An outbreak that began in a Guinean toddler had by year's end killed more than 7,000 people across Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. Doctors Without Borders pleaded for help; the WHO admitted it had moved too slowly. The world built a vaccine after the worst was over, and prepared again to forget.
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