Ebola – an international public health emergency- ran havoc in 2014

In March 2014 witnessed surge of cases presenting with high fever, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, respiratory systems in parts of Africa, but as the days goes on, and physicians starts to witness loss of lives in this cases ,the public health departments in different countries rose to the alarm and realize that it is something out of ordinary ,later upon investigation ,both laboratory and epidemiological surveillance the culprit is nabbed and the loss of life attributed to a single stranded RNA virus belong to filoviridae family, with biosafety level 4 ,but by then quite a damage is done ,both loss of life and deleterious effect on financial burden came to notice ,geographical barrier is crossed , surveillance measures are beefed up across continents and global health community acknowledge it as an emergency that threatened mankind like never before.