By the third week of May, the outbreak seemed essentially over. During the entire time of the outbreak, there had been a total of 258 cases of diagnosed or probable Ebola in West Africa. Zaire Ebola was acting just the way it had acted in all previous outbreaks: a couple of hundred people get Ebola, and the virus goes away, suppressed by the Ebola fighters. The World Health Organization prepared to announce the end of the outbreak; the announcement was planned to come at the end of May. Doctors Without Borders made plans to start closing their Ebola treatment units and bringing their staff
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