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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.[1]
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Notation | Timeline, tables and graphs at the apex of the West African Ebola virus epidemic |
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Researchers believe that a 2-year-old boy who lived in the village of Meliandou, Guéckédou Prefecture, Guinea was the index case of the current Ebola virus disease epidemic. The boy died in December 2013. His mother, sister, and grandmother then became ill with similar symptoms and also died. Although Ebola represents a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa and was documented[2] in Tai Forest chimpanzees, only one case had been reported in humans in West Africa.[3] With this background and in the context of poor public health systems,[4] the early cases were mis-diagnosed as diseases more common to the area. Thus Ebola virus disease spread for several months before it was recognized as such.[5][6] In late October 2014, the boy was later identified as Emile Ouamouno.[7][8] In a Tuesday, December 30, 2014 online world news story article by Richard Ingham from the Agence France-Presse (AFP) that was featured on the MSN homepage, it was revealed that a tree in the area where children had played at, playing with insect-eating free-tailed bats and hunting and grilling them to eat (they are a cousin of another well-known Ebola reservoir, the fruit bat, whose role in this outbreak is not as clear), is believed to be the point where human infection – likely by the bats – with Ebola in this current outbreak occurred, the 'ground zero' of the epidemic. This is not yet known decisively, but scientists have enough knowledge to go public with the story.[9]
Data comes from reports by the World Health Organization Global Alert and Response Unit[Resource 1] and the WHO's Regional Office for Africa.[Resource 2] All numbers are correlated with United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), if available.[Resource 3] The reports are sourced from official information from the affected countries' health ministries. The WHO has stated the reported numbers "vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak", estimating there may be 3 times as many cases as officially reported.[10][11]
Each row of the table represents the best available information cross-checked from multiple sources on the day it was reported. The data may be inaccurate for the following reasons:[citation needed]
Date | Total | Guinea | Liberia | Sierra Leone | Sources | ||||
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Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | ||
25 Nov 2015 | 28,637 | 11,314 | 3,804 | 2,536 | 10,675 | 4,808 | 14,122 | 3,955 | [note 1][13] |
18 Nov 2015 | 28,634 | 11,314 | 3,804 | 2,536 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 14,122 | 3,955 | [note 2][14] |
11 Nov 2015 | 28,635 | 11,314 | 3,805 | 2,536 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 14,122 | 3,955 | [note 3][15] |
4 Nov 2015 | 28,607 | 11,314 | 3,810 | 2,536 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 14,089 | 3,955 | [note 4][16] |
25 Oct 2015 | 28,539 | 11,298 | 3,806 | 2,535 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 14,061 | 3,955 | [note 5][17] |
18 Oct 2015 | 28,476 | 11,298 | 3,803 | 2,535 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 14,001 | 3,955 | [18] |
11 Oct 2015 | 28,454 | 11,297 | 3,800 | 2,534 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,982 | 3,955 | [note 6][19] |
27 Sep 2015 | 28,388 | 11,296 | 3,805 | 2,533 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,911 | 3,955 | [20] |
20 Sep 2015 | 28,295 | 11,295 | 3,800 | 2,532 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,823 | 3,955 | [21] |
13 Sep 2015 | 28,220 | 11,291 | 3,792 | 2,530 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,756 | 3,953 | [22] |
6 Sep 2015 | 28,147 | 11,291 | 3,792 | 2,530 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,683 | 3,953 | [23] |
30 Aug 2015 | 28,073 | 11,290 | 3,792 | 2,529 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,609 | 3,953 | [24] |
16 Aug 2015 | 27,952 | 11,284 | 3,786 | 2,524 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,494 | 3,952 | [25] |
9 Aug 2015 | 27,929 | 11,283 | 3,787 | 2,524 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,470 | 3,951 | [26] |
26 Jul 2015 | 27,748 | 11,279 | 3,786 | 2,520 | 10,672 | 4,808 | 13,290 | 3,951 | [27] |
12 Jul 2015 | 27,642 | 11,261 | 3,760 | 2,506 | 10,673 | 4,808 | 13,209 | 3,947 | [28] |
5 Jul 2015 | 27,573 | 11,246 | 3,748 | 2,499 | 10,670 | 4,807 | 13,155 | 3,940 | [note 7][29][30] |
28 Jun 2015 | 27,514 | 11,220 | 3,729 | 2,482 | 10,666 | 4,806 | 13,119 | 3,932 | [31] |
21 Jun 2015 | 27,443 | 11,207 | 3,718 | 2,473 | 10,666 | 4,806 | 13,059 | 3,924 | [32] |
14 Jun 2015 | 27,305 | 11,169 | 3,674 | 2,444 | 10,666 | 4,806 | 12,965 | 3,919 | [33] |
31 May 2015 | 27,110 | 11,132 | 3,652 | 2,429 | 10,666 | 4,806 | 12,827 | 3,912 | [34] |
17 May 2015 | 26,898 | 11,105 | 3,635 | 2,407 | 10,666 | 4,806 | 12,632 | 3,907 | [35] |
3 May 2015 | 26,558 | 10,990 | 3,589 | 2,386 | 10,564 | 4,716 | 12,440 | 3,903 | [36] |
19 Apr 2015 | 26,009 | 10,793 | 3,565 | 2,358 | 10,212 | 4,573 | 12,267 | 3,877 | [37] |
5 Apr 2015 | 25,480 | 10,557 | 3,515 | 2,333 | 9,862 | 4,408 | 12,138 | 3,831 | [38] |
22 Mar 2015 | 24,837 | 10,296 | 3,429 | 2,263 | 9,602 | 4,301 | 11,841 | 3,747 | [39] |
8 Mar 2015 | 24,282 | 9,976 | 3,285 | 2,170 | ≥9,343 | ≥4,162 | 11,619 | 3,629 | [40] |
22 Feb 2015 | 23,659 | 9,574 | 3,155 | 2,091 | 9,238 | 4,037 | 11,301 | 3,461 | [41] |
8 Feb 2015 | 22,824 | 9,147 | 3,044 | 1,995 | ≥8,881 | ≥3,826 | 10,934 | 3,341 | [42] |
25 Jan 2015 | 22,022 | 8,780 | 2,917 | 1,910 | 8,622 | 3,686 | 10,518 | 3,199 | [43] |
11 Jan 2015 | 21,226 | 8,399 | 2,806 | 1,814 | 8,331 | 3,538 | 10,124 | 3,062 | [44] |
28 Dec 2014 | 20,171 | 7,890 | 2,707 | 1,709 | 8,018 | 3,423 | 9,446 | 2,758 | [45] |
14 Dec 2014 | 18,565 | 7,273 | 2,415 | 1,525 | 7,819 | 3,346 | 8,356 | 2,417 | [46][47][48] |
30 Nov 2014 | 17,110 | 6,397 | 2,164 | 1,325 | 7,653 | 3,157 | 7,312 | 1,915 | [49][50][51] |
18 Nov 2014 | 15,291 | 5,765 | 2,047 | 1,214 | 7,082 | 2,963 | 6,190 | 1,598 | [52][53] |
2 Nov 2014 | 13,015 | 5,188 | 1,731 | 1,041 | 6,525 | 2,697 | 4,759 | 1,450 | [54][55] |
19 Oct 2014 | 9,911 | 4,890 | 1,540 | 926 | 4,665 | 2,705 | 3,706 | 1,259 | [56] |
12 Oct 2014 | 8,950 | 4,476 | 1,472 | 843 | 4,249 | 2,458 | 3,252 | 1,183 | [57] |
28 Sep 2014 | 7,169 | 3,278 | 1,157 | 710 | 3,696 | 1,998 | 2,317 | 570 | [58][59] |
14 Sep 2014 | 5,327 | 2,578 | 942 | 601 | 2,720 | 1,461 | 1,655 | 516 | [60][61][62] |
31 Aug 2014 | 3,664 | 1,794 | 771 | 494 | 1,698 | 871 | 1,216 | 436 | [63][64] |
16 Aug 2014 | 2,225 | 1,225 | 543 | 394 | 834 | 466 | 848 | 365 | [65] |
9 Aug 2014 | 1,835 | 1,011 | 506 | 373 | 599 | 323 | 730 | 315 | [66] |
30 Jul 2014 | 1,437 | 825 | 472 | 346 | 391 | 227 | 574 | 252 | [67] |
23 Jul 2014 | 1,201 | 672 | 427 | 319 | 249 | 129 | 525 | 224 | [68] |
14 Jul 2014 | 982 | 613 | 411 | 310 | 174 | 106 | 397 | 197 | [69] |
2 Jul 2014 | 779 | 481 | 412 | 305 | 115 | 75 | 252 | 101 | [70] |
17 Jun 2014 | 528 | 337 | 398 | 264 | 33 | 24 | 97 | 49 | [71] |
27 May 2014 | 309 | 202 | 281 | 186 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 5 | [72] |
12 May 2014 | 260 | 182 | 248 | 171 | 12 | 11 | – | – | [73][74] |
1 May 2014 | 239 | 160 | 226 | 149 | 13 | 11 | – | – | [75] |
14 Apr 2014 | 176 | 110 | 168 | 108 | 8 | 2 | – | – | [76] |
31 Mar 2014 | 130 | 82 | 122 | 80 | 8 | 2 | – | – | [77] |
22 Mar 2014 | 49 | 29 | 49 | 29 | – | – | – | – | [78] |
Date | Total | Nigeria | Senegal | USA | Spain | Mali | U.K. | Italy | Refs | ||||||||
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Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | ||
4 Nov 2015 | 36 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | [note 8][24] |
13 May 2015 | 36 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | [note 9][79] |
29 Dec 2014 | 35 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | – | – | [note 10][45] |
14 Dec 2014 | 32 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | – | – | – | – | [46] |
2 Nov 2014 | 27 | 10 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | [54] |
19 Oct 2014 | 25 | 9 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | – | – | – | – | – | [56] |
12 Oct 2014 | 23 | 8 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | – | – | – | – | – | [57] |
28 Sep 2014 | 22 | 8 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | – | - | – | – | – | – | – | [58] |
31 Aug 2014 | 22 | 7 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 0 | – | – | - | – | - | – | – | – | – | – | [63] |
16 Aug 2014 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 4 | – | – | - | – | - | – | - | – | – | – | – | – | [65] |
9 Aug 2014 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 2 | – | – | - | – | - | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | [66] |
30 Jul 2014 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | - | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | [67] |
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