Ebola Outbreak 360° | FRONTLINE

In late 2013, a microscopic virus began a deadly journey from animal hosts to human victims. It was the beginning of the worst Ebola

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in history. She was not involved. You see corpses. 15 16 fallen bodies in body bags. The killer virus does. unidentified for three months by then hundreds of people were infected I feared it was just because, as if black played, this inexorable spread across the continent and beyond by the summer of 2014 the

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was completely out of control they were polishing this tree terminal test Orioles there was no treatment center it can only go in one direction there were hundreds of new infections every week and cases in the US and Europe are getting out of control it is getting worse it is spreading faster and exponentially this is the story of Ebola's deadly journey and what it means for the In the world there will be more of these, no matter what we think.

Ebola was no exception. Ebola is a precedent. You are in a jungle in the remote forest region of Guinea, West Africa. It is December 2013. This tree is believed to be where it is. it all started my town there's a huge tree that's lit up you could be full of it you'll join us and I can do it one day we better hang out and kill it means the men are G members like me who lit the fire and I fell from the top row tiny then we ate something that at the time someone died no it hadn't started yet oh hey yah wind and when my son fell yes I like you I thought it was witchcraft waiting she's on time Yahweh I thought that someone had cursed his family with yellow flames.

She had fever, developed diarrhea. I refused to eat, I barely moved, and then he died, judge. On Monday, someone, the husband, knocked on my doors, he said, sir. Agustín I said yes, he said open the door. I said what's up. He said my wife won't stop bleeding so she said all she does is bleed and a jacket and it won't come up. I went to the house and some people laughed at how she looked. a room that hit everything made like the whole house was covered in blood when I saw it I was scared when the virus was identified as Ebola it has already traveled hundreds of miles the response of the government and the World Health Organization is chaotic every day, day after day, disorganized meeting, no decision was made, no one knew what they were talking about, we had the idea that he was talking about something that was serious but typically occurred in a certain way and could be handled, but at that time we didn't do it .

I don't really know how complex the outbreak was going to be it crosses an international border into neighboring Sierra Leone you are in the town of Capano Instron Sierra Leone this is the calm before the storm a traditional healer famous throughout the region has just died the burial will cause an explosion of new cases when she died we wash the whole body now I know who was washed under the arms between the legs roartonio we dress the corpse in clean clothes if the hair is loose we braid it if we had not buried her properly her ghost would have haunted her angry spirit would have kept our children tomorrow a lie I felt bad and the villagers said to clean me with hospitality and that they would take me to the hospital a body of the Koran but there was a rumor that the white people were killing patients with injections so I ran away that the seven heads walk outside al akhirin 347 ago, including Northie Mota's doctors, Lina's security lab technicians, he wasn't involved, you see dead bodies 15 16 18 dad, what's olive in body bags and I start to work? office update maybe this is the end of the world maybe everyone is going to die when the world health organization declares an emergency in august 2014 it's already too late the number of infections is increasing exponentially it was a race against time and I guess we didn't have the same kind of surveillance WHO Hello so we wanted them to have a real sense of urgency.

The outbreak is now raging in three countries: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, but then migrates to Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, which we were watching. One of those dangerous pathogens that we knew is growing at an exponential rate over a wide geographic area, something we've never seen before, but which this outbreak demonstrated very, very quickly, is that the ability to manage something on this scale doesn't exist. You are in Ana Bulla's treatment. center everything beyond the orange fence is potentially contaminated with a virus it is August 2014 now the number of infections in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, is increasing exponentially Doctors Without Borders runs the only Ebola hospital in the city, but there is not enough space for patients It is very extremely horrible because people are dying, sometimes a very distressing death besides a child, oh yeah you find my mother dead who was trying to take care of her child and then you have a baby and You're trying to figure out how you're going to live with Helena.

Trying to deal with an unaccompanied child and right in the center it was very difficult to stand there and look people in the face and you have to tell them I'm sorry, you have to go home and they are begging you. I don't want to go home to my family and risk infecting them too and yet I look at these people and say if I have to take someone, I have to take this woman to the place on the ground here, she is very, very sick. and she will probably be dead soon I have to take someone I have to take her either I can't thank you any ideas I was just praying for God's intervention I prayed for God to save me and my children now it was just them and me then my son he stopped talking, well that's when they came for him and he died in my hands ten months after the outbreak started.

US and other countries send thousands of troops to build treatment centers and outbreak begins to subside after more than 11,000 deaths vaccine developed that scientists say could prevent future epidemics, but health officials already fear that the next international outbreak could be something even worse than Ebola; There will be more of these, no matter what we think, Ebola was no exception. a precedent, how do we make sure that no one makes a mistake next time and that everyone understands it? Because you know where everyone went wrong in this case.