Republic of Congo with 280 Deaths
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South Sudan with 151 Deaths
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England with 0 Deaths
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Ebola is a virus named after a river in Zaire, its first site of discovery. A usually fatal filovirus which affects monkeys, apes and humans, it is a cause of viral hemorrhagic fever -- there are others. Filoviruses are string-shaped, often with a little hook or loop at one end. Another, somewhat less deadly filovirus is the Marburg virus.

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Reston virus was first described in 1990 as a new "strain" of Ebola virus, a result of mutation from Ebola virus. It is the single member of the species Reston ebolavirus, which is included into the genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, order Mononegavirales. Reston virus is named after Reston, Virginia, US, where the virus was first discovered.

Reston was discovered in crab-eating macaques from Hazleton Laboratories (now Covance) in 1989. This attracted significant media attention due to the proximity of Reston to the Washington, DC metro area, and the lethality of a closely related Ebola virus. Despite its status as a level-4 organism, Reston virus is non-pathogenic to humans, though hazardous to monkeys; the perception of its lethality was compounded by the monkey's coinfection with Simian hemorrhagic fever virus.

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The species Bundibugyo ebolavirus is the taxonomic home of one virus, Bundibugyo virus (BDBV), that forms filamentous virions and is closely related to the infamous Ebola virus (EBOV). The virus causes severe disease in humans in the form of viral hemorrhagic fever and is a Select Agent, World Health Organization Risk Group 4 Pathogen (requiring Biosafety Level 4-equivalent containment), National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Category A Priority Pathogen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Category A Bioterrorism Agent, and is listed as a Biological Agent for Export Control by the Australia Group.

Guniea - C) 2,776 D) 1,786

Liberia - C) 8,166 D) 3,496

Sierra Leone - C) 10,030 D) 2,977

United Kingdom - C 1 D 0

Mali - C) 8 D) 6

* Nigeria - C) 20 D) 8

* Senegal - C) 1 D) 0

* United States - C) 4 D) 1

* Spain - C) 1 D) 0

(* Free of Ebola)

1976 - The first identified case of Ebola was on 26 August 1976, in Yambuku, a small rural village in Mongala District in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo.


1989 - Ebola-Reston virus was introduced into quarantine facilities in Virginia and Pennsylvania by monkeys imported from the Philippines.

1990 - Ebola-Reston virus was introduced once again into quarantine facilities in Virginia, and Texas by monkeys imported from the Philippines. Four humans developed antibodies but did not get sick.

1992 - Ebola-Reston virus was introduced into quarantine facilities in Sienna, Italy by monkeys imported from the same export facility in the Philippines that was involved in the episodes in the United States. No humans were infected.

1994 - Scientist became ill in Ivory Coast after conducting an autopsy on a wild chimpanzee in the Tai Forest. The patient was treated in Switzerland.

1996 - A medical professional traveled from Gabon to Johannesburg, South Africa, after having treated Ebola virus-infected patients and thus having been exposed to the virus. He was hospitalized, and a nurse who took care of him became infected and died.

1996 - Laboratory contamination in Russia, one case - one death.

2001 - Occurred in Gulu, Masindi, and Mbarara districts of Uganda. The three most important risks associated with Ebola virus infection were attending funerals of Ebola hemorrhagic fever case-patients, having contact with case-patients in one's family, and providing medical care to Ebola case-patients without using adequate personal protective measures.

2003 - Outbreak occurred in the districts of Mbomo and Kll in Cuvette Ouest Dpartement, Republic of Congo. 128 died.

2004 - Outbreak occurred in Yambio county of southern Sudan. This outbreak was concurrent with an outbreak of measles in the same area, and several suspected EHF cases were later reclassified as measeles cases.


2007 - Outbreak occurred in Kasai Occidental Province, Republic of Congo. The outbreak was declared over November 20. Last confirmed case on October 4 and last death on October 10.

2008 - First known occurrence of Ebola-Reston in pigs in the Philippines Strain closely similar to earlier strains. Six workers from the pig farm and slaughterhouse developed antibodies but did not become sick.

2011 - The Ugandan Ministry of Health informed the public that a patient with suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic fever died on May 6, 2011 in the Luwero district, Uganda. The quick diagnosis from a blood sample of Ebola virus was provided by the new CDC Viral Hemorrhagic Fever laboratory installed at the Uganda Viral Research Institute (UVRI).


2014/Present - Ongoing outbreak across multiple countries in West Africa. Number of patients is constantly evolving due to the ongoing investigation.

- Fever (greater than 38.6C or 101.5F)
- Severe headache
- Muscle pain
- Weakness
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting
- Abdominal (stomach) pain
- Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)

- Practice careful hygiene. For example, wash your hands with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer and avoid contact with blood and body fluids.

- Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected persons blood or body fluids (such as clothes, bedding, needles, and medical equipment).

- Avoid funeral or burial rituals that require handling the body of someone who has died from Ebola.

- Avoid contact with bats and nonhuman primates or blood, fluids, and raw meat prepared from these animals.

- Avoid hospitals where Ebola patients are being treated. The U.S. embassy or consulate is often able to provide advice on facilities.

- After you return, monitor your health for 21 days and seek medical care immediately if you develop any symptoms.

No FDA-approved vaccine or medicine (e.g., antiviral drug) is available for Ebola.

Symptoms of Ebola are treated as they appear. The following basic interventions, when used early, can significantly improve the chances of survival:

Providing intravenous fluids (IV)and balancing electrolytes (body salts)
Maintaining oxygen status and blood pressure
Treating other infections if they occur.

October 6th
Health officials in Madrid say three more people are in the hospital on suspicion of contracting Ebola. The news comes a day after a nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a city hospital became infected with the disease.

The officials added that the hospitalized include the nurse's husband, another health worker and a traveler who had spent time in one of the affected West African countries.

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October 7th
US health officials are monitoring 10 quarantined people who had contact with a Liberian man infected by the deadly Ebola virus. The individuals are being checked regularly as medical officials play down the risk of an outbreak.

The 10 individuals are considered to be at high risk, and are being checked at regular intervals for symptoms of the disease that has already killed thousands of people in West Africa.

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October 8th
The Liberian national who recently became the first man to ever be diagnosed in the United States with Ebola died early Wednesday, a Dallas, Texas hospital said.

"It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am," Texas Health Resources said in a statement. "Mr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease, Ebola. He fought courageously in this battle. Our professionals, the doctors and nurses in the unit, as well as the entire Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas community, are also grieving his passing. We have offered the family our support and condolences at this difficult time."

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October 8th
Prime Minister David Cameron will send 750 troops to the West African state of Sierra Leone in an effort to help contain the Ebola virus and to build a specialist treatment center.

The announcement comes after the PM chaired a meeting of Cobra, the governments emergency response committee.

Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Argus, equipped with a 100-bed medical complex, and three Merlin helicopters to aid troop movements will also be sent to West Africa. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) previously announced that 40 soldiers based in Northern Ireland have been deployed to Sierra Leone.

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October 8th
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security's Customs & Border Protection (CBP) this week will begin new layers of entry screening at five U.S. airports that receive over 94 percent of travelers from the Ebola-affected nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

New York's JFK International Airport will begin the new screening on Saturday. In the 12 months ending July 2014, JFK received nearly half of travelers from the three West African nations. The enhanced entry screening at Washington-Dulles, Newark, Chicago-O'Hare, and Atlanta international airports will be implemented next week.

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October 9th
A Briton with symptoms of Ebola has died in Macedonia, local authorities said. The hotel in Skopje where he was staying has been sealed off, while another Briton and hotel staff are being kept inside to prevent possible spreading of infection.

According to Macedonian authorities the man came to Skopje from London on October 2 and was taken to hospital on Thursday where he died several hours later.

The man reportedly suffered from fever, vomiting and internal bleeding. His condition deteriorated rapidly, Dr. Jovanka Kostovska of the ministry's commission for infectious diseases said.

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October 12th
A Texas health care worker who treated the first states Ebola patient, has been tested positive for the virus, the authorities said.

"A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the Ebola patient hospitalized there has tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test at the state public health laboratory in Austin, said a statement from Texas Department of State Health Services.

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October 14th

UN employee infected with Ebola has died at a hospital in Germany.

Doctors at the hospital in Leipzig said the man, 56, died in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

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October 14th

The Founder of Facebook and his wife Priscilla Chan donate $25 million to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to support Ebola research and help fight against the epidemic.

In a statement on Facebook the billionaire CEO revealed to his followers that he was making the donation:

Priscilla and I are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point. It has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly and projections suggest it could infect 1 million people or more over the next several months if not addressed.

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October 16th

An Air France plane carrying 183 passengers has been quarantined in Madrids Barajas Airport over a passenger showing Ebola-like symptoms. The airport activated the emergency protocol.

According to El Mundo newspaper, the passenger felt sick, had a headache and was shivering. But he did not have a fever.

Flight AF1300 departed from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Thursday morning and landed in the Spanish capital at 11:30am local time.

The aircraft has been moved to a special zone of Barajas Airport in compliance with established protocol.

The man with suspected Ebola symptoms traveled to Paris from Nigerian capital of Lagos, the paper reports.

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October 19th

The Spanish nurse who contracted the Ebola virus while treating infected patients at a Madrid hospital has seemingly beaten the disease following a complex treatment, the country's government said.

New tests revealed a negative result for the virus, according to a statement released by the Spanish government on Sunday.

The patients treatments included a drip of human serum with antibodies from Ebola sufferers who had survived the disease, as well as other drugs which were not named.

One of the unnamed drugs was reportedly the experimental anti-viral medicine favipiravir, El Mundo newspaper reported.

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October 20th

Nigeria has been declared officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz, speaking in the capital Abuja, said it was a "spectacular success story".

Nigeria won praise for its swift response after a Liberian diplomat brought the disease there in July.

The WHO officially declared Senegal Ebola-free on Friday.

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October 20th

The mandatory quarantine for the family of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient in the US who died on Oct. 8, has ended. With the release, Louise Troh, Duncans fiance who was held at a secret location in Dallas, expressed both relief and grief.

According to AP, officials said Monday that 43 of 48 on their original Ebola watch list have gone through the 21-day period and are now in the clear. Others who cared for Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital will stay under watch until Nov. 7. Two nurses -Nina Pham and Amber Vinson - who cared for Duncan there have since been diagnosed with Ebola and are being treated in isolation units.

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October 22nd

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon begin monitoring all persons entering the United States from West Africa for 21 days as part of the groups ongoing effort to combat the spread of Ebola.

Starting next Monday, health workers, journalists and all other travelers coming to the US from three of the African nations currently fighting the worst Ebola disease outbreak in history will have to adhere to strict guidelines announced on Wednesday this week by the CDC.

Travelers entering the US from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia will all be subject to the new monitoring system, which will involve collecting contact information from individuals returning from those countries and then following up with them daily for three weeks. Starting Monday, the monitoring system will be initiated at facilities in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia and Maryland.

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October 23rd

A hospitalized medical aid worker who volunteered in Guinea, one of the three West African nations experiencing an Ebola epidemic, and since returned to the United States has tested positive for Ebola according to the New York City Health Department laboratory, which is part of the Laboratory Response Network overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The patient has been notified of the test results and remains in isolation. The patient is currently at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Bellevue Hospital is one of eight New York State hospitals that Governor Cuomo has designated to treat Ebola patients. A specially trained CDC team determined earlier this week that the hospital has been trained in proper protocols and is well prepared to treat Ebola patients.

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October 28th

Amber Vinson, the second of two Dallas nurses who contracted the Ebola virus while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, will be released Tuesday from Atlantas Emory University Hospital, officials said. Vinson was cleared of the virus last week.

Vinson, 29, is due to make a public statement during a news conference at 1 p.m. ET, according to the hospital. It will be her first public appearance since she was flown to Atlanta and admitted to Emory hospitals Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 15 after testing positive for Ebola the day prior.

Amber is steadily regaining her strength and her spirits are high, Vinsons family said in a statement last week. We appreciate everyone for keeping Amber in your thoughts and prayers.

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October 29th

Chuck Hagel, the United States secretary of defense, said Wednesday that all American troops returning from West Africa will be kept in supervised isolation for 21 days in order to prevent the potential spread of Ebola. Persons exposed to the deadly disease may show symptoms, including fever and diarrhea, anywhere from two days to three weeks after being exposed to Ebola.

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October 31st

China will send an elite unit from the Peoples Liberation Army to help Ebola-hit Liberia, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The PLA squad, which has experience from a 2002 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), will build a 100-bed treatment center in Liberia, Reuters reported. This is the first such facility in the three countries most impacted by Ebola to be constructed and run by a foreign country. Beijing made the decision responding to UN calls for a greater global effort to fight the deadly virus in West Africa.

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November 1st
Canada has announced it has suspended visa applications from the three West African countries most affected by Ebola. It has become the second country after Australia to restrict West Africans from entering the country.

"Effective immediately, Canadian visa officers have temporarily paused the processing of visa applications from foreign nationals, who have been physically present in a country, designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having widespread and intense transmission of the Ebola virus", the official statement of the Canadian government said.

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November 5th
A British-run facility to treat people with Ebola has opened in Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, UK troops have arrived in the West African nation as part of Britains contribution to the fight against the deadly disease.

The center is the first of six being constructed by the UK government. The facility in Kerry Town, outside the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown, will be run jointly by the Department for International Development and the charity Save the Children.

It will provide diagnosis and treatment to infected patients, reducing the risk of infected patients passing the virus onto relatives and their communities.

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November 12th
Mali has two new Ebola deaths that are not connected to the first case in this West African country, AP said, citing an official. A sick imam has died from Ebola in the capital, Bamako, and a nurse who treated him has also died, officials said on Wednesday. Tests have confirmed the patient and nurse at Clinique Pasteur both had Ebola. The first case reported in Mali last month was a 2-year-old girl who contracted the virus in neighboring Guinea and later died.

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November 16th
160 Chinese health workers have arrived in Liberia to help tackle the Ebola outbreak ravaging the West African country. Some 2,812 people have died inside its borders alone. The staff have extensive experience dealing with epidemics. "They experienced SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). They are very knowledgeable in this area, Chinese ambassador to Liberia, Zhang Yue, told AFP. It is expected that operations will begin in 10 days. China is the only country which provides not only the construction of an Ebola treatment unit, but also the running, operation and the staffing of itfurther on, we will provide additional material to Liberia worth around $5 million. So all together $46 million of our aid is exclusively to Liberia, Zhang added.

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November 21st
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is over, Reuters reported. No people showed symptoms for two incubation periods since the last case. The seventh outbreak since the virus was identified there in 1976 was separate from the one spreading in West Africa, where more than 5,400 people have died. There were 49 deaths out of 66 people infected in the remote northwestern Equator province during the three-month outbreak, according to Congolese authorities.

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November 29th
Almost 7,000 people have died from the Ebola virus in West Africa, according to new data released from the World Health Organization, AFP reported. According to the UN health agency, of the 16,169 people infected with the deadly virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, 6,928 have perished. The latest figures are about 1,200 more deaths than reported on Wednesday, which AFP attributed to possible "unreported cases."

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December 1st
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Liberia wrongly added 1,000 deaths to the organization's official Ebola toll. The WHO redacted the data, and a new set of figures shows Liberia with a death toll of 3,145 out of 7,635 cases, as of November 28. Data published at the weekend placed the number of Liberian deaths at 4,181.

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December 2nd
President Barack Obama praised efforts to combat Ebola in the United States and West Africa, but said the world cannot defeat the deadly virus without more action. He called on Congress to authorize an additional $6.18 billion to battle the disease.

Speaking at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, President Obama said the funds are necessary to help extinguish Ebola, which has taken the lives of nearly 6,000 people since it broke out in West Africa earlier this year. He pushed Congress to approve the money before its holiday recess.

"It's a good Christmas present to the American people and to the world," Obama said, referring to the extra funding. "The money's running out. We cannot beat Ebola without more funding. If we want other countries to step up, we are going to have to lead the way."

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December 3rd
Another US healthcare worker is being transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after possibly being exposed to the Ebola virus while working in West Africa, a hospital spokeswoman announced. The unnamed person will be monitored for signs of the virus. No other information was offered to the press, due to confidentiality concerns. Emory treated the first two Americans who were infected with Ebola while working in West Africa.

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December 5th
A UN peacekeeper in Liberia who has contracted Ebola is being treated at a clinic in the capital, Monrovia, Reuters reported. The patient is the third member of the mission infected by the virus since the outbreak began. A previous confirmed case of Ebola in the UN mission and another probable case resulted in the death of staff members on September 25 and October 13.

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December 6th
A doctor from Cuba, who was being treated for Ebola in a hospital in Geneva, has been discharged after making a full recovery, the medical facility reported. Felix Baez, who is now free to return home, was one of 256 doctors and nurses from the island who were sent to West Africa to treat the virus, which has killed more than 6,000 people, according to Reuters. Cuba has been praised by the international community for taking an active role in trying to combat the disease.

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December 11th
A clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine by Merck and NewLink has been interrupted in all 59 volunteers in Geneva a week early, Reuters reported. The "measure of precaution" was taken after four patients complained of joint pains in hands and feet, the University of Geneva Hospital said on Thursday. They are all "fine and being monitored regularly by the medical team leading the study," it added. The human safety trials may resume on January 5 in up to 15 volunteers after checks to ensure that the joint pain symptoms were "benign and temporary."

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December 11th
An American nurse who was exposed to Ebola while volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone arrived at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center in Maryland on Thursday, NIH said in a statement.

The nurse was transferred to the Bethesda facility via a private medical evacuation flight.

NIH did not release any further information on the nurse, including when he or she might have been exposed to the virus, current medical condition or affiliation.

The patient will be admitted "for observation and to enroll in a clinical protocol," NIH said.
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December 16th
The Ebola death toll has risen to more than 6,800 people, almost all of them in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Monday. As of December 13, there had been 18,464 cases of infection from the deadly virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and 6,841 people had died, AFP reported. Sierra Leone last week overtook Liberia as the nation with the most infections, with 8,273 cases and 2,033 deaths as of December 13.

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December 18th
China has approved a domestically developed experimental Ebola vaccine for clinical trials, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing the People's Liberation Army logistics unit.

The Chinese vaccine is being developed by the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Xinhua said, a military research unit which is also involved in developing a drug to treat the disease.

"This follows American and Canadian vaccines to become the third Ebola vaccine to enter clinical trials," the official Chinese state news agency said.

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December 24th
The government of Sierra Leone declared on Wednesday a five-day lockdown in its Northern Province, in order to contain the Ebola epidemic. According to the resident minister for the Northern Region, Alie Kamara, all public places will be closed and no transport will be functioning during this period, with the exception of specially authorized vehicles. The current Ebola outbreak was first reported in March 2014 and the death toll for West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea) is 7,573, the World Health Organization reports.

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December 29th
The number of people infected with Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has passed the 20,000 mark according to the World Health Organization, as reported by Reuters. The health body also said that more than 7,800 people have died from the virus since its outbreak in March. Sierra Leone has been the worst affected of the three nations, with the country suffering the worst outbreak of the virus on record.

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December 29th
A female health care worker who has just returned from Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in a Glasgow hospital, Scottish authorities said Monday.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called it the first case of Ebola ever diagnosed inside the United Kingdom.

The patient flew to Glasgow via Casablanca and London's Heathrow Airport, arriving late Sunday, the Scottish government said. The health care worker was admitted to a hospital on Monday morning after developing a fever.

Sturgeon said the risk to the public is "extremely low to the point of negligible" and that pre-planned steps would be taken to protect the public.

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January 2nd
Italy's only Ebola patient is fully recovered and was released from a hospital on Friday more than a month after being flown to Rome from Sierra Leone where he worked as a doctor treating others stricken by the disease.

The 50-year-old Sicilian man has been identified only by his first name, Fabrizio. He contracted the hemorrhagic virus while working for humanitarian group Emergency during the worst Ebola outbreak on record.

After his arrival in Rome on Nov. 25, the patient's condition worsened and he was moved to intensive care on Dec. 5, where he received respiratory assistance.

He was treated with a combination of an experimental drug never used before in Italy, and plasma taken from survivors of the disease.

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January 3rd
The British nurse who contracted Ebola while volunteering in West Africa is now in a critical condition despite receiving treatment at a London hospital. The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is sorry to announce that the condition of Pauline Cafferkey has gradually deteriorated over the past two days and is now critical, the hospital announced on its website. Cafferkeys contracting of the virus was first detected on December 30 after she traveled from Sierra Leone via Casablanca to London Heathrow. When authorities confirmed she had Ebola, it is understood she returned to London from Glasgow in an RAF military plane.

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January 4th
A U.S. health care worker who was possibly exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone was expected to arrive for observation on Sunday at a Nebraska facility that has treated three Ebola cases, hospital officials said.

The patient, who was not identified, was expected to arrive at the Biocontainment Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha via private air ambulance around 2 p.m. CST for observation and possible treatment, the center said in a statement.

The patient "has been exposed to the virus but is not ill and is not contagious," said Dr. Phil Smith, the unit's medical director, adding "we will be taking all appropriate precautions."

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