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Ebola's murderous path from a toddler to global mayhem

When a toddler in a remote Guinean village suddenly died from a mysterious fever last December, no one could have imagined it signalled the start of the worst-ever Ebola epidemic.

The outbreak that has swept through west Africa like wildfire, killing nearly 3,000 people so far and threatening to infect tens of thousands in the coming weeks, smouldered undetected for months before erupting onto the world stage.

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