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.
In context
Also in 2014 (8 other events on record)
- Russia annexes Crimea · Europe · War
- ISIS takes Mosul · Middle East · War
- Ferguson and the birth of BLM · North America · Politics
- Boko Haram abducts Chibok girls · Africa · War
- MH17 shot down over Ukraine · Europe · Disaster
- MH370 disappears · Southeast Asia · Disaster
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in Disaster
Era
Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.
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