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B. With about 184 million people, Nigeria has more than twice the population of any other African nation. Nigeria was the first country to effectively contain and eliminate the Ebola threat by using a method of contact tracing later copied by other countries.
C. The outbreak began in Guinea in December 2013 and spread to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone where 3,955 people died. Guinea recorded 2,536 deaths followed by the eight deaths in Nigeria and six dead in Mali, northeast of Guinea.
D. Two people who contracted Ebola in Liberia were diagnosed in the United States, and one of them died. Two nurses who treated one of the patients were diagnosed and recovered. Of seven Ebola patients evacuated to the U.S., only one died.
A. The doctor treated his symptoms as malaria after his first Ebola test was negative. By the time a second test came up positive, he was critically ill. There has not been a natural case of smallpox since 1977, and wild cases of polio are limited to Afghanistan and Pakistan.