West Africa is grappling with a deadly and unprecedented outbreak of Ebola. At least 100 people have died in Guinea and 10 in Liberia over the past several weeks. It is the first Ebola outbreak to ever hit the West Africa region. Speaking in Geneva, Keija Fukuda of the World Health Organization said the outbreak is one of the “most challenging ever faced.”

Keija Fukuda: “This is one of the most challenging Ebola outbreaks that we have ever faced. And right now we have documented cases both in Guinea and in Liberia. And the reasons why this is one of the most challenging outbreaks is that, first, we see a wide geographic dispersion of cases. So this has come in from a number of districts as well as a large city in Guinea, Conakry.”