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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 pain, and headaches. [1]
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.
Ebola virus disease in the U.S. Map of Ebola cases and infrastructure throughout the U.S. Cases contracted in the U.S. 2: Cases first diagnosed in U.S. 4 [note 1] Cases evacuated to U.S. from other countries: 7 [1] Total cases: 11 [note 2] Deaths: 2 [2] Recoveries from Ebola: 9 [note 2] Active cases: 0
Pianka's acceptance speech [14] for the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist Award from the Texas Academy of Science [15] resulted in a controversy in the popular press when Forrest Mims, vice-chair of the Academy's section on environmental science, claimed that Pianka had "enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola."
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.It caused major loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the region, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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 ...
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.
No human outbreaks of the Sudan ebolavirus have been reported in the last 10 years. [17] Given that this is significantly longer than any reported case of persistent infection in human survivors of ebolavirus infection, [18] this lends weight to the theory expressed by Kyobe Henry Bbosa, Ebola incident commander at Uganda's Ministry of Health, that this outbreak was caused by an unobserved ...