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The WHO's representative in Nigeria officially declared the country Ebola-free on 20 October 2014, stating it was a "spectacular success story". [184] Nigeria was the first African country to be declared Ebola-free. [185] This was largely due to the early quarantine efforts of Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh. [186]
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.
On 30 September, a cameraman was tested positive for Ebola in a Texas hospital after contracting the disease before traveling back to the United States from Liberia. He covered the Ebola outbreak for NBC News [46] [47] (see 2014 Ebola virus cases in the United States). Following this the Liberian government enacted strict restrictions on ...
After Uganda’s outbreak, the CDC urges doctors to be on alert for Ebola—also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF)—a rare but deadly virus.
In August 2021, two months after the re-emergent Ebola epidemic in the Guéckédou prefecture was declared over, a case of the Marburg virus disease was confirmed by health authorities through laboratory analysis. [112] This is the first-ever case of the Marburg virus disease in West Africa. [113] On August 2, the patient succumbed to the ...
By RYAN GORMAN A pair of startling new statistics about the lethal Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been released by the World Health Organization. A WHO official said the death rate in Guinea ...
At a joint news conference on October 24, New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey governor Chris Christie announced that they were imposing a mandatory 21-day quarantine on all air travelers returning to New York and New Jersey from West Africa who have had contact with Ebola patients. In explaining the move from the CDC's voluntary ...
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 ...