(Time) Doctors Without Borders is calling the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, West Africa, an “epidemic of a magnitude never before seen,” prompting a panic, and even a government warning against sex.
In the past several months, Ebola has leaped from a remote forested corner of Guinea in West Africa to the congested coastal capital of Conakry, spreading panic and fear in its wake. Even if it doesn’t liquefy internal organs in quite the graphic manner described in the 1995 thriller Outbreak, the Ebola virus, which inspired the movie, is one of the most lethal known to man, on par with untreated HIV/AIDS.
