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Date | December 2013 – present [1] |
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Casualties | |
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An epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) is ongoing. It began in Guinea in December 2013 then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. [6] A few much smaller subsidiary outbreaks have occurred elsewhere, with outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal that appear to have been successfully contained, [7] and secondary infections of medical workers with very low case numbers in the United States and Spain, [8] [9] neither of which is yet showing any signs of spreading in the general population. As of October 2014 [update], the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local governments reported a total of 8,400 suspected cases and 4,033 deaths (4,633 cases and 2,423 deaths having been laboratory confirmed), [2] though the WHO believes that this substantially understates the magnitude of the outbreak [10] with possibly 2.5 times as many cases as have been reported. [11] On 14 October, during a news conference in Geneva, the assistant director-general of the WHO stated that there could be as many as 10,000 new Ebola cases per week by December 2014. [12] [13]
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![]() Situation map of the outbreak in West Africa | |
Date | December 2013 – present [1] |
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Casualties | |
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An epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) is ongoing. It began in Guinea in December 2013 then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. [6] A few much smaller subsidiary outbreaks have occurred elsewhere, with outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal that appear to have been successfully contained, [7] and secondary infections of medical workers with very low case numbers in the United States and Spain, [8] [9] neither of which is yet showing any signs of spreading in the general population. As of October 2014 [update], the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local governments reported a total of 8,400 suspected cases and 4,033 deaths (4,633 cases and 2,423 deaths having been laboratory confirmed), [2] though the WHO believes that this substantially understates the magnitude of the outbreak [10] with possibly 2.5 times as many cases as have been reported. [11] On 14 October, during a news conference in Geneva, the assistant director-general of the WHO stated that there could be as many as 10,000 new Ebola cases per week by December 2014. [12] [13]
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