Ga go kalafi e e itseweng ya bolwetse jo; maiteko a go thusa batho ba ba khueditsweng a akaretsa go ba nosa metsi a letswai/sukiri kgotsa go tsenya dino mo diriping. Bolwetse jo bo bolaya bontsi: magareng a 50% le 90% ya ba ba tshwaeditsweng ke mogare o. EVD e bonwe lantlha kwa Sudan morago ya bonwa kwa Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gantsi bolwetse jo bo tsipoga kwa dikgaolong tsa Aforika ya Sub-Sahara. Go tloga ka 1976 (fa bo lemogiwa lantlha), go fitlha go 2013, go palo ya batho ba le ka fa tlase ga 1,000 ba ba tshwaeditsweng, Bogolo jwa tsogo gajaana ke jwa Tsogo ya Ebola ya Aforikabophirima, e e khuetsang Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia gongwe le Nigeria. Go fitlha ka Phatwe wa 2014 go lemogilwe batho ba le 1600. Go tsewa matsapa go fitlhelela moento; le gale, ga o ise o bonwe.