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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.
In March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a major Ebola outbreak in Guinea, a western African nation, [1] the disease then rapidly spread to the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone with smaller outbreaks occurring in Senegal, Nigeria, and Mali; the resulting West African Ebola virus epidemic is the largest Ebola outbreak (cases and deaths) ever documented.
List of Ebola outbreaks. 1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak. 2014 DR Congo outbreak. Kivu Ebola epidemic. List of epidemics and pandemics. v. t. e. This list of Ebola outbreaks records the known occurrences of Ebola virus disease, a highly infectious and acutely lethal viral disease that has afflicted humans and animals primarily in equatorial ...
This article covers the timeline of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa and its outbreaks elsewhere. [1] Flag icons denote the first announcements of confirmed cases by the respective nation-states, their first deaths, and their first secondary transmissions, as well as relevant sessions and announcements of agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centers for ...
This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...
25–90% mortality [ 1] Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease ( EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever ( EHF ), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. [ 1] Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after infection. [ 3] The first symptoms are usually fever, sore throat, muscle ...
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]
Ebola virus has caused the majority of human deaths from EVD, and was the cause of the 2013–2016 epidemic in western Africa, [2] which resulted in at least 28,646 suspected cases and 11,323 confirmed deaths. [3] [4] Ebola virus and its genus were both originally named for Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the country where it ...