CDC Museum Gives On-The-Ground Look At West Africa Ebola Outbreak

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December 20th, 2017

Felicia, a 29-year-old Liberian nurse, prepares to go inside the Ebola patient ward to draw blood from confirmed patients in Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia, on Oct. 9, 2014. The team is following proper infection prevention control protocols.

Morgana Wingard / courtesy of USAID

The first reports of an Ebola outbreak in Guinea reached the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in spring 2014. The deadly virus raged through West Africa, infecting more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000.

The CDC was one of the organizations coordinating efforts on the ground, and, from the beginning, saw the epidemic as a historical moment.

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