The West African Ebola outbreak has sickened 8,399 people since March, killing 4,033 of them, making it the worst Ebola outbreak in history, according to the World Health Organization. Find out how the virus first arrived in the United States via U.S. missionaries who were flown here for treatment and then how the virus was unwittingly imported via Thomas Eric Duncan, who flew from Liberia to Texas with the virus and died in Dallas.
1976 – Ebola is first discovered in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo near the Ebola River in 1976. Thirty-two Ebola outbreaks would follow, bringing the total number of cases before this outbreak to 2,361, including 1,438 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
March 19, 2014 – What would become the largest Ebola outbreak in history begins in March 2014 with 23 deaths from what is then called a "mystery" hemorrhagic fever.
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