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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 ...
This was the most severe Ebola outbreak in recorded history in regards to both the number of human cases and fatalities. It began in Guéckédou , Guinea, in December 2013 and spread abroad. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 33 ] Flare-ups of the disease continued into 2016, [ 39 ] and the outbreak was declared over on 9 June 2016.
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.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola now has contracted the disease, authorities said Monday, presenting a dire challenge to Africa's most ...
By RYAN GORMAN Growing concerns about a possible Ebola outbreak in Mali have at least one expert concerned many more people will die from the deadly disease than previously thought. More than ...
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]
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.
By RYAN GORMAN The surgeon being treated for Ebola has died at a Nebraska hospital only 48 hours after arriving. Dr. Martin Salia, 44, who arrived Saturday from West Africa in dire health, was ...