4000 Deaths And Counting: The Ebola Epidemic In 4 Charts

The figures are frightening. As you can see from the above chart, the death toll for Ebola virus disease in West Africa has now passed 4000. The total number of cases exceeds 8000. To help explain why the current outbreak is so deadly, I’ve summarized the main results of a study led by epidemiologists from the WHO Ebola Response Team (cited with [1], see references) and compiled data from the World Health Organization (see methods) to visualize the trends over time. You can explore the figures in more detail using the interactive graphics on my Plotly page.

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