Should you worry about the Ebola outbreak? Here’s what the numbers tell us

of the virus connected to almost all previous outbreaks in the DRC, the Zaire strain, but the tests were negative.

The patient died May 5.

Unaware that the patient had Ebola and that exposure to the body could make people sick, the DRC’s health ministers told reporters Saturday that mourners thought the death was caused by a mystical illness and gathered continue reading …