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On 31 May 2020, the DRC Health Minister Eteni Longondo announced an additional Ebola outbreak, separate to the ongoing Kivu Ebola epidemic. The outbreak originated in Équateur province (which was also the location of the 2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak). [61] [62] [63] By 17 October 2020, the case count was 128 with 53 fatalities. [64]
Ebola virus disease; Timeline of the epidemic; Responses to the epidemic; Timeline, tables and graphs; Ebola virus disease treatment research; Post-Ebola virus syndrome; Ebola vaccine; Nations with widespread cases; Guinea; Liberia; Sierra Leone; Other affected nations; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Spain; United States; United Kingdom; Italy; Other ...
The first case of Ebola disease ever recorded occurred in August 1976 in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala District in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire). [12] The first victim of the disease was the village school headmaster, who had toured an area near the Central African Republic border along the Ebola river in ...
Orthoebolavirus zairense [1] or Zaire ebolavirus, more commonly known as Ebola virus (/ i ˈ b oʊ l ə, ɪ-/; EBOV), is one of six known species within the genus Ebolavirus. [2] Four of the six known ebolaviruses, including EBOV, cause a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals, known as Ebola virus disease (EVD).
The Kivu Ebola epidemic [note 2] was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) mainly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in other parts of Central Africa, from 2018 to 2020. [10] Between 1 August 2018 and 25 June 2020 it resulted in 3,470 reported cases. [ 11 ]
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 ...
The family Filoviridae is a virological taxon that was defined in 1982 [3] and emended in 1991, [9] 1998, [10] 2000, [11] 2005, [12] 2010 [13] and 2011. [14] The family currently includes the six virus genera Cuevavirus, Dianlovirus, Ebolavirus, Marburgvirus, Striavirus, and Thamnovirus and is included in the order Mononegavirales. [13]