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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