A Medical worker wearing a protective suit leads a mother and her children inside the high-risk area of the Elwa hospital runned by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), where are being treated Ebola patiens, on September 7, 2014 in Monrovia. President Barack Obama said in an interview aired September 7 the US military would help in the fight against fast-spreading Ebola in Africa, but said it would be months before the epidemic slows. The death toll from the Ebola epidemic -- which is spreading across West Africa, with Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone the worst hit -- has topped 2,000, of nearly 4,000 people who have been infected, according to the World Health Organization. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET
Now that Ebola is creeping closer and closer to our shores, I am scared. What is the outbreak like around the world now?
At the time of writing, the Ebola virus has infected more than 5,300 people in West Africa since early this year. More than 2,600 people have died from it.
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