Ebola Outbreak Map: Why Has the Disease Spread so Fast in Liberia? And How Many People Have Died in the Country So Far?

The Ebola crisis has hit one country worse than all the others: Liberia has suffered an estimated 46 per cent of cases and, at 1,200, twice as many deaths as any other country.

Sierra Leone and Guinea, the other two countries where the disease is widely transmitted, are suffering too, but the disease is at its most rampant in Liberia. According to World Health Organisation (WHO) figures there have been 4,262 cases and 2,484 deaths in the country so far.