Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back

By BOUBACAR DIALLOSARAH DiLORENZO

Published September 8, 2014 12:15pm ET

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Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back — In this photo taken on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, a health worker, left, uses a thermometer to screen a man at a makeshift road block run by Guinean security forces outside the town of Forecariah, Guinea. Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The resurgence of the disease in a place where doctors thought they had it beat shows how history's largest Ebola outbreak has spun out of control. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah) | Youssouf Bah

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there.

The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbreak surfaced, but they hadn’t seen a new case for weeks. So they packed up, leaving a handful of staff on stand-by. The outbreak was showing signs of slowing elsewhere as well.

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