In the year 1976, starting in Sudan, Ebola climbed out of its unknown hiding place, and caused a plethora of lives being taken away, 340 people devastatingly died. Fear gripped the victims' faces, and uncertainty tortured their minds. The people of Zaire waited outside clinics, churches and in their homes for a treatment of the horrible disease, but there was no cure. They were forced to watch people die, hoping that they would be saved from the violent death of the Ebola virus. From the year of 1976 to the present date of 2014, researchers have searched for origin and cure of the virus. Scientist have carried out numerous studies and investigations, but no one has been able to find the right explanations. Ebola is a virus that does not attack certain people based off of their bank accounts, it’s a disease that attacks anyone who comes into contact with it. It is rare for one to survive with Ebola in any country. It’s major in some of the poorest countries because the countries don’t have the medical assistance that America has. The level of development in a country is very important to such a deadly virus. If a country is a poorer country then more likely for more deaths to occur from the Ebola virus. More people would die in poorer countries because they don’t have the things more economically developed countries have.
The levels of poverty and the costs of medicines affect the outcome of an Ebola outbreak. When a country has a lot of poverty, the country isn’t able to keep clean and help not spread the virus. The costs of medicine is very expensive. Many countries and many people aren’t able to pay for a regular doctor check-up, let alone assistance for Ebola. The United States of America has already had a few cases of Ebola. The United States of America is a well-developed county, so it was able to take care of the few scares and cases that it’s had. The percentage of having an Ebola outbreak in the United States is very