Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) prepare to bring food to patients kept in an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment center in Kailahun, Sierra Leone July 20, 2014. REUTERS/Tommy Trenchard The bad news keeps getting worse, on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Today, the number of people who have died from the virus since the current cycle began hit 729, making it the worst Ebola outbreak in history.