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 reg
Kenema Hospital, Sierra Leone
Ebola crisis: More UK aid arrives in Sierra Leone
An Ebola treatment unit in Liberia
Ebola virus particles seen in an electron micrograph
A public health emergency of international concern is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other S
Western African Ebola epidemic
…suspected cases and 11,323 deaths (39.5%), though the WHO believes that this substantially understates the magnitude of the outbreak. On 8 August 2014, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern was declared and on 29 March 2016, the WHO terminated the Public Health Emergency of International Concern status of the outbreak. Subsequent flare-ups…
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