Disease

Ebola Outbreak One Year Old

The Ebola outbreak, ravaging primarily Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, is a year old today. According to one official count, it's infected 24,000 people and killed 10,000.

And it's managed to do so because of an institutional failure on several levels: weak public health systems locally and a painfully slow response globally.

A significant challenge remains ahead, Doctors Without Borders says.

"To declare an end to the outbreak, every single person in contact with someone infected with Ebola must be identified. There is no room for mistakes or complacency; the number of cases weekly is still higher than in any previous outbreak, and overall cases have not significantly declined since late January."

Turkey - Swine Flu

The Turkish Health Minister announced on Monday that 19 people had died from the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, in the last week in Turkey, but the minister said the recent cases do not constitute an outbreak of the disease, claiming the cases are nothing more than a seasonal occurrence.

In 2014, there were 170 diagnosed cases of the disease, of which 11 proved to be fatal.