( CNN ) Over the last year more than 25,000 people , a population about the size of Key West , Florida , have fought Ebola infections . More than 10,000 have not survived . But for those who have survived , life will never be the same . And even for those who did not experience Ebola personally , the `` most severe public health emergency seen in modern times '' showed the world its vulnerability to disease . It revealed real flaws in government systems that are supposed to protect us . While the intensity of the largest Ebola epidemic in history has died down , and the initial dire predictions that there would be over a million infections by January never came true , dozens are still newly infected each week . The latest World Health Organization Report confirmed a total of 30 new confirmed cases of Ebola were reported in the week of April 5 . This is the lowest weekly total since May 2014 . But reports are mixed on stopping the virus completely : In Liberia and Sierra Leone , the number of cases has fallen so much , there are more treatment facilities than demand . WHO in Liberia is in the process of decommissioning surplus facilities . But in Guinea , of the 19 confirmed deaths from April 5 , seven were only identified as Ebola post-mortem and there were reports of 21 unsafe burials . `` Taken together these data indicate that though surveillance is improving , unknown chains of transmission could be a source of new infections in the coming weeks , '' the latest WHO report said . Click on the photos above to learn how a grave digger , a first responder , and many others have changed in the wake of Ebola .
April 8 , 2014 , the WHO finally started reporting the Ebola epidemic was a `` concern '' Front line health care workers and Ebola survivors in West Africa are still being exposed to high risk of infection from Ebola.