--- title: Ebola Cases Top 25,000 description: Cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea have reached over 25,000. canonical: https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-31T15:22:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:31.164Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Cases Top 25,000 og:description: The outbreak has infected 25,178 people and killed 10,445 og:url: https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/ 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: Ebola Cases Top 25,000 twitter:description: The outbreak has infected 25,178 people and killed 10,445 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ebola Cases Top 25,000 > Sponsored content. 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TIME's Aryn Baker goes inside a clinic treating ebola patients in Liberia to show the reality of the fight against this deadly disease._ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 31, 2015 3:22 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 31, 2015 3:22 PM UTC More than 25,000 people have been infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, according to a new report. As of Tuesday, the outbreak, which has persisted for more than a year, has infected 25,178 people and killed 10,445, according to new numbers released by the World Health Organization (WHO). Overall, the region has seen a drop in the number of confirmed cases and the number of patients filling Ebola treatment centers. However, medical groups have [warned against complacency](http://time.com/3753266/ebola-outbreak-one-year-anniversary/) and Guinea has seen [a recent uptick in infections](http://time.com/3750704/guinea-ebola-surge/). The country also just recently [launched an Ebola vaccine trial](http://time.com/3758011/ebola-vaccine-trial-guinea/). **MORE:** [14 Emotional Dispatches From Key Ebola Fighters](http://time.com/3753266/ebola-outbreak-one-year-anniversary/) ## Transcript [ NOISE ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/"},"headline":"Ebola Cases Top 25,000","datePublished":"2015-03-31T15:22:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:59:31.164Z","description":"The outbreak has infected 25,178 people and killed 10,445","url":"https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/","keywords":["ebola","Sierra Leone","WHO","Guinea","Liberia","Ebola outbreak"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"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/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/","name":"Ebola Cases Top 25,000"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ebola Fighters in West Africa - TIME's Person of the Year 2014","description":"Hundreds of doctors, nurses and health workers work every day to treat and contain the outbreak in the hot zone","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/laroqNbt/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-10T11:46:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/laroqNbt.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/","duration":"PT10M47S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ebola in Liberia: A Grim Look Inside One Clinic","description":"TIME's Aryn Baker goes inside a clinic treating ebola patients in Liberia to show the reality of the fight against this deadly disease.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XbAIcPT1/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-02T17:07:25.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XbAIcPT1.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/","duration":"PT12S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3765302/ebola-cases-reach-25000/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```