Ebola Outbreak 2014 Live Updates

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ByABC News
August 1, 2014, 12:00 PM

— -- The largest Ebola outbreak in history is ongoing in Africa. Two Americans have become infected with the deadly virus while doing aid work in Liberia, and are expected to be transported to the United States for medical care. They will become the first human Ebola cases on U.S. soil.

Ebola has no vaccine and no cure. It is fatal in more than half of the patients who contract it.

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