--- title: Ebola: This Map Shows You Every Ebola Outbreak in History description: See how the 2014 Ebola epidemic shadows every other outbreak in history. canonical: https://time.com/3554416/ebola-history-map/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-03T16:03:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:10:47.033Z article:section: Health og:title: This Map Will Show You Every Ebola Outbreak in History og:description: From the first outbreak in 1976 og:url: https://time.com/3554416/ebola-history-map/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Map Will Show You Every Ebola Outbreak in History twitter:description: From the first outbreak in 1976 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Map Will Show You Every Ebola Outbreak in History > Sponsored content. 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That outbreak was one of the more than 30 known Ebola outbreaks in human history; the ongoing West African Ebola epidemic is the deadliest on record. 13,567 cases and 4,951 deaths have been reported as of Oct. 29, according to the [World Health Organization.](http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137424/1/roadmapsitrep%5F31Oct2014%5Feng.pdf?ua=1) Use this map by software company [Esri](http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/drought-famine-disease/ebola-outbreak-history) to learn how Ebola has affected countries from South Africa to Spain since the virus’ first recognition in 1976: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3554416/ebola-history-map/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3554416/ebola-history-map/"},"headline":"This Map Will Show You Every Ebola Outbreak in History","datePublished":"2014-11-03T16:03:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:10:47.033Z","description":"See how the 2014 Ebola epidemic shadows every other outbreak in history","url":"https://time.com/3554416/ebola-history-map/","keywords":["ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3554416/ebola-history-map/","name":"This Map Will Show You Every Ebola Outbreak in History"}}]}] ```