The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.Â
More than three-quarters of those deaths occurred during a brutal outbreak in west Africa which began a decade ago, originating in Guinea before spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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