# 2014–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa

2014–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa

The 2014–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was the largest since the discovery of the Ebola virus (EBOV) in 1976. More than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths were reported from the three most affected countries: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2019
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014%E2%80%932016_outbreak_of_Ebola_virus_disease_in_West_Africa.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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