In order to understand anything, one must dive deep into the history of the issue. One of the most current issues people have started to dive deep into, is the Ebola virus that is spreading over West Africa. This virus has left people all over the world feeling sad, lonely, anxious, nervous, and uneasy. Proper education in learning about the virus allows those feelings to be calmed, but also allows history not to repeat itself. The benefits of education far outweigh the negatives. Being prepared can help ease a painful process and move one towards a better understanding of how to fix it. Educating yourself allows people to become more empathetic towards the outbreak. Education on the outbreak allows people who are not directly affected, to appreciate what they have while maintaining what they have, too. Often times, building a sense of spirituality, to cope with global difficulties is achieved in educating oneself. Lastly, this allows people to become proactive instead of having to become reactive. It is not until one dives deep into what this outbreak really is, how it is spread, the symptoms it causes, the number of cases and deaths, how the world is affected, and what can be done for help, to lessen the feelings of sadness, loneliness, anxiety, nervousness and uneasiness. Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans (WHO, 2014.) The virus causes a serious illness, which can lead to fatalities, if untreated. The first sightings of EVD happened in 1976, through two concurrent outbreaks. These two outbreaks were in Nzara, Sudan, and Yambuktu, Democratic Republic of Congo (WHO, 2014.) When EVD showed up again, it transpired in a village near the Ebola River (WHO, 2014.) This is where the disease’s name comes from. The most current outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has occurred in West Africa, has been the most complex outbreak since its first sightings in 1976 (WHO, 2014.) All other combined Ebola outbreaks do not compare to the number of deaths and cases this most current outbreak has caused. “It has also spread between countries starting in Guinea then spreading across land borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia, by air (1 traveler) to Nigeria and USA (1 traveler), and by land to Senegal (1 traveler) and Mali (2 travelers).” (WHO, 2014.) The countries that have had the greatest impact from the Ebola virus, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, are the countries that have very feeble health systems and human and infrastructural resources. These countries have also only newly materialized from stretched times of struggle and uncertainty. The transmission of the Ebola virus has transmitted to people from wild animals. Once contacted with the human, it has spread throughout the population through human-to-human transmission. “It is thought that fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are natural Ebola virus hosts. Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs of other bodily fluids of infected animals such as chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead, or in the rainforest. Ebola then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids.” (WHO, 2014.) While treating patients with supposable cases of the virus or those confirmed with the virus, those workers, are more susceptible to be infected with the Ebola virus. This happens because they are in such close contact with patients while their infection control precautions are not strictly practiced (Preston, 1995.) No matter what precaution must be taken, in order to make oneself not at risk when dealing with these patients, all precautions should be taken. Those that have died from Ebola could also still spread the disease if the grievers have straight contact with the body during their funeral (Preston, 1995.) The bodies will remain infectious as long as the blood still encompasses the virus. While there is no evidence of sexual transmission, it cannot be ruled out. Evidence shows that men who are improving from symptoms can hold the Ebola virus in isolated seminal fluids (Preston, 1995.) There is no evidence in woman’s vaginal secretions, and there is no data to prove this outside the 82 days, either (Preston, 1995.) Symptoms of the Ebola virus disease comes in stages. The growth of the disease is a period up to twenty one days (Lanham, 2014.) Until developed symptoms occur, people are not infectious. At first, one would not feel any different than the flu, with symptoms like fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and a sore through. These first few symptoms, though, are then followed by a series of additional symptoms-vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney/live