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Active cases. 0. Four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") occurred in the United States in 2014. [ 3] Eleven cases were reported, including these four cases and seven cases medically evacuated from other countries. [ 4] The first was reported in September 2014. [ 5]
Outbreaks are also closely monitored by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Special Pathogens Branch. [ 13 ] Nigeria was the first country in western Africa to successfully curtail the virus, and its procedures have served as a model for other countries to follow.
Between 1976 and 2012, according to the World Health Organization, there were 24 outbreaks of Ebola resulting in a total of 2,387 cases, and 1,590 deaths. [1] [14] The largest Ebola outbreak to date was an epidemic in West Africa from December 2013 to January 2016, with 28,646 cases and 11,323 deaths.
On Sept. 20, Uganda’s Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease due to Sudan virus in the country’s Mubende District, per the CDC.
Thomas Eric Duncan (December 30, 1972 – October 8, 2014) was a Liberian citizen who became the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States on September 30, 2014. Duncan, who had been visiting family in Dallas, was treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. [ 1][ 2] By October 4, his condition had deteriorated from "serious ...
On Thursday, April 6, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory to inform U.S. public health departments and clinicians about these outbreaks and ...
Western African Ebola epidemic. Note: current estimates suggest that between 17 per cent and 70 per cent of Ebola cases were unreported, [ 11] suggesting a total number of cases between 34,513 and 94,486. The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Reston virus was first introduced as a new "strain" of Ebola virus in 1990. [4] In 2000, it received the designation Reston Ebola virus [10] [11] and in 2002, the name was changed to Reston ebolavirus. [12] [13] Previous abbreviations for the virus were EBOV-R (for Ebola virus Reston) and most recently REBOV (for Reston Ebola virus or Reston ...