The official death toll in West Africa's Ebola outbreak rose above 4,000 yesterday.
"The analysis showed that as the mean number of tornadoes per outbreak rose, the variance around that mean rose four times faster.
(AP) AFRICA UGANDA: EBOLA TOLL CLIMBS -- Deaths from an Ebola virus outbreak rose to 35, with 38 more people infected and officials trying to keep the virus from spreading, the Health Ministry said.
Several employees at Disneyland have been diagnosed with measles, health officials confirmed Tuesday, as the total number of measles cases in the California-centered outbreak rose to 53.
In the time the research was performed, the World Health Organization estimated that deaths from the "rapidly evolving outbreak" rose from 29 in Guinea alone to more than 200 in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The number of flu outbreaks rose last week to 231 from 216, and 163 of those occurred in a care home.
There was the Ebola outbreak, the rise of the Islamic State, the end of Fed tapering, a slowdown in Chinese growth, and more problems in Europe.
They found that while the total number of tornadoes rated F/EF1 and higher each year hasn't increased, the average number per outbreak has, rising from about 10 to about 15 since the 1950s.
