article_snippet: Before the Ebola outbreak ravaged West Africa, before the deaths soared into the thousands, before the Ebola outbreak triggered global fears, Ebola struck Emile .
article_snippet: The 2-year-old boy is who researchers with The New England Journal of Medicine believe was the first person to contract Ebola in December 2013.
article_snippet: How Emile got infected, no one is sure, but Ebola can be spread from animals to humans through infected fluids or tissue.
article_snippet: One thing that is certain, within a month Ebola not only took Emile's life, but also those of Emile mother, sister and grandmother.
article_snippet: Where those of his mother, sister and grandmother went, the Ebola outbreak followed.
article_snippet: When the lab results came back, We learned that there was Ebola Zaire in West Africa.
article_snippet: On August 6, a businessman with Ebola died in a hospital in Saudi Arabia.
article_snippet: a businessman with Ebola had been to Sierra Leone for work.
article_snippet: named Thomas Duncan had been unknowingly exposed to Ebola -- and named Thomas Duncan became the first known case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. named Thomas Duncan died a few days later.
article_snippet: Ebola is turning a basic human reaction like comforting a sick child into a potential death sentence," said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF's regional director.
article_snippet: By October, when Sierra Leone was reporting a rate of five infections an hour, UNICEF said UNICEF had received only 25% of the $200 million UNICEF needed for emergency assistance for families affected by Ebola in the region.
article_snippet: To declare an end to the epidemic, every single person in contact with someone infected with Ebola in the region must be identified.
highlights_snippet: Without Borders calls the Ebola outbreak "tragic and avoidable" 