On 3 January 2014, seventeen elders witnessed an apparition of the Blessed Mother in Pisgat Ze’ev, Jerusalem. Elders were planning on sending representatives to Sierra Leone the following month, but the Blessed Mother gave a stern warning. She stated, “Members of the House of the Assembly should not travel to Sierra Leone. There are many who are sick from a deadly disease in western Africa and many will die. Thousands upon thousands will die because of this disease. It is imperative that you remain in the Holy Land at this time. In the year 2017, it will be safer, but you should remain cautious.”
We advise that members of the Church who planned to visit any area of western Africa, refrain from doing so for until after 2017.
Additionally the Blessed Mother stated that there would be widespread disease in central Africa five years from now.
— 6 January 2014
{Update: The Ebola outbreak took place from 2014 through 2016 with smaller pockets of the population becoming infected in various countries. There was what also an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2019.}
