Another source of chest pain is the esophagus, the tube that carries food from your mouth to your stomach. Acid backing up (refluxing) from the stomach into the esophagus causes pain that can mimic a heart disorder, as can spasms of the esophagus.
Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%.
Here are the latest WHO numbers, as of September 21: In Guinea, where the outbreak began late last year, Ebola had as of September 21 infected 1,022 people, killing 635 of them. Nearly a third of those cases surfaced in the three weeks leading up to September 21.