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.

Ebola has a mean virulence of 61%, killing a total 2603 out of 4235 people since records began. Virulence is the 'case fatality rate', the percentage of cases that lead to death.

Here's a new graphic from Reuters that shows every documented Ebola case and death in history, with numbers current as of July 31: ebola outbreak chart map . Reuters.

This Chart Shows Every Ebola Outbreak In History By Lauren F Friedman 2014-08-05T17:02:00Z ...

UPDATE: Just one day on from the publication of this article, the World Health Organisation has confirmed a new case of Ebola as the cause of a death in Sierra Leone. AS OF January 14th 2016, the ...

Now, even as the death toll in West Africa rises steadily towards the 10,000 mark, the frequency of Google searches on Ebola in the U.S. have leveled off to numbers similar to July, when the ...

GENEVA — The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. WHO assistant ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — The World Health Organization says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 932. The new figures come Wednesday as ...

Recent findings published in Emerging Infectious Diseases showed that the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak indirectly increased the number of deaths caused by malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis in Guinea ...

Here’s everything you need to know about Ebola in 5 charts, including why a widespread outbreak in the U.S. is unlikely. 1. The outbreak is spreading rapidly—and cases are probably being ...

Even in West Africa, where an Ebola outbreak is currently raging, the much-feared virus is relatively rare. But since the first documented human outbreak in 1976, Ebola has re-emerged more than a ...