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Now ebola stands at stage center demanding the worlds attention as its most formidable foe in the 21st century anatomy of a pandemic ebola virus disease in the 21st century uses the ebola virus outbreak of 2014 15 as a model for describing what pandemics are how they are transmitted between organisms how they are disseminated throughout . Those infections are bacterial but historys worst pandemic was caused by a virus that swept the world only a long lifetime ago the misnamed spanish flu of 1918 1920 was a strain of h1n1 influenza of unknown origin any place where pigs and chickens and people live is a candidate that illness was often complicated by a supervening . As of the end of march 2016 the west africa epidemic of ebola virus disease ebola had resulted in a total of 28646 cases 11323 of them fatal reported to the world health organization guinea liberia and sierra leone were most heavily affected but ebola cases were exported to several other african and european countries as well as the united states with limited further transmission . 2013 west african ebola virus epidemic the worlds most widespread ebola virus disease outbreak happened in west africa in 2013 and lasted until 2016 liberia sierra leone and guinea were the worst affected countries major loss of life and socioeconomic losses were suffered during this epidemic the first case was recorded in guinea in 2013