The ebola crisis is currently impacting heavily on West Africa. Standard Bank Group has just contributed R1-million to South Africa's Department of Health’s ebola response efforts, which includes the establishment of an Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone.
Over 4,000 people have reportedly died as a result of the virus. Besides Africa, cases have thus far been reported in North America and Europe.
You can get all the information you need about the virus at
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/.