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Colourised scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in green) budding from an infected cell, in a 2014 image.

Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths, with cases now in Kenya and Nigeria

Colourised electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in blue) budding from an infected cell, made at a NIAID laboratory in the United States in 2014.

Nigeria confirms its first Ebola case in 12 years, and tests point to the same strain as the Congo outbreak

Health workers in personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment unit run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia in 2014.

Ebola has killed more than 3,700 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the WHO sees the first signs of a retreat