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I'm taking you back to 2014 when a deadly virus devastated an entire region.

West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic was the most widespread outbreak of the disease since it was first discovered in 1976.

The deadly Ebola virus has been blamed for scores of deaths in the West African nation of Guinea.

Scientists believe it began with the death of a two-year-old boy in Guinea in December 2013.

It quickly spread to neighbouring countries.

The World Health Organization has confirmed two cases of the Ebola virus in the West African state of Liberia.

The Health Ministry in Sierra Leone says four people including a doctor have died from a hemorrhagic fever.

I've been speaking to Youssef Cabo from Sierra Leone who was 26 when he

caught the virus. When I entered the ambulance I was just feeling that finally it is over for me and I am going to die.

I was just crying and the neighbors were as well crying because the whole talk that I'm not going to come back.

When Ebola was discovered in Sierra Leone in May 2014,

the country was still healing from its civil war,

which had ended in 2002.

There was panic all over the place, like people were just scared,

because we are talking about a country where the past 11 years

we are just recovering from the war. So all people we are thinking

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