Wikipedia has been updated with similar and better graphs
looking at
http://ebolastats.info/ I couldn't see where things were getting worse better or whatever
Picking up the stats from Wikipedia and scraping them quickly (and there are lots of ifs in the stats)
And then plotting them with Mathematica on log plots gives the plots below.
It's not a heartening outlook at the moment, heading onto the level of impact of the Spanish flu next year if nothing changes for the better (that's the simple depressing plot at the bottom)
Note that the numbers are supposed to be an underestimate, there will be lots of deaths from other causes as health systems fail and there's always the risk it becomes more infectious. Against that the drugs may work or other approaches such as innoculating with the blood of survivors, and resources from richer countries are being put into it.
Nigeria's outbreak appears under control which with a potential 180 million people is good news.
In Guinea, 12 million people, it seems to be steadily growing.
Liberia, 4 million there's a hint the rate of increase is slowing
Sierra Leone, 6 million the apparent lower death rate may only be due to the later arrival of the disease and the month for it to be fatal, i.e. the deaths lag the cases.
And some gloomy perspective with a static picture
Annual malaria deaths - something like 600,000
Syrian civil war toll ~200,000 deaths, 22 million people
Ukraine ~ 4000
Ebola ~ 4000
Camel Flu ~ 320 (40% of those infected as another comparison)
US car deaths 34,000 (2012)
Cumulative death rate
Simple extrapolation
