Ebola is quickly spreading across the western part of the African continent, having claimed over two thousand lives already and infecting more and more people every second. The Ebola virus originated in South Sudan breaking out for the first time in 1976. The World Health Organization (WHO) managed to terminate the Ebola virus. In the various outbreaks around Africa that later occurred, it was not of massive concern. Early 2014, Ebola broke out once again, only on a much larger scale. The World Health Organization was slow to react, thinking this outbreak was of a same scale as the previous outbreaks. Now Ebola is not only a concern in West Africa, but also around the world.
There are several factors that could have lead to the extensive outbreak of the virus. The world now has a population of over seven billion people, meaning the disease is now not only easily transmitted from person to person but also from country to country and possibly even from continent to continent. This is due to the major travel developments all around the world. Being an area of third world countries, some areas are over populated, which caused such a large start of the epidemic of Ebola and the hygienic situation in West Africa is not to the standards that it should be. The border controls are very poor, allowing individuals that may be infected with the Ebola virus to easily be transmitted to another country. Ebola is now a worldwide concern. Military forces are sending troops from all over the world to help assist the poorly equipped medical services and teams available in the affected countries. All these factors combined contribute to the enormous and awful outbreak of the Ebola virus, being the largest one to date.

The world as we see it today, is very international and global. People are constantly on the move; many travelling in densely packed jets (610,000 people are flying