8: WHO declares Ebola “international public health emergency.”Īug. missionary infected with Ebola is flown from Liberia to Atlanta for treatment.Īug. missionary physician infected with Ebola in Liberia is flown to Atlanta in the United States for treatment.Īug. July 30: Liberia shuts schools, quarantines the worst-affected communities, using troops for enforcement.Īug. Sheik Umar Khan, who was leading Sierra Leone’s fight against the epidemic, dies of Ebola. July 25: Nigeria confirms its first Ebola case, a man who died in Lagos after traveling from Monrovia. June 23: With deaths above 350, making the West African outbreak the worst on record, MSF says it is “out of control” and calls for massive resources. June 17: Liberia reports Ebola in its capital, Monrovia. May 26: WHO confirms first Ebola deaths in Sierra Leone. Healthcare workers there and in Sierra Leone and Liberia face hostility from fearful, suspicious people. March 30: Liberia reports two Ebola cases suspected cases reported in Sierra Leone.Īpril 1: Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns the epidemic’s spread is “unprecedented.” A World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman calls it “relatively small still.”Īpril 4: Mob attacks Ebola treatment center in Guinea. March 22: Guinea confirms a previously unidentified hemorrhagic fever, which killed more than 50 people, is Ebola. The virus has killed more than 4,500 people. (Reuters) - Global health authorities are struggling to contain the world’s worst Ebola epidemic since the disease was identified in 1976.
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