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    Organizations from around the world responded to the West African Ebola virus epidemic. In July 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened an...
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    The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major...
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    11 July 2014. WHO Ebola Response Team (23 September 2014). "Ebola Virus Disease in West AfricaThe First 9 Months of the Epidemic and Forward Projections"...
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    Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by...
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    thought that Ebola virus was not endemic to Sierra Leone or to the West African region and that the epidemic represented the first time the virus was discovered...
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    This article covers the timeline of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa and its outbreaks elsewhere. Flag icons denote the first announcements...
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    An epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Guinea from 2013 to 2016 represents the first ever outbreak of Ebola in a West African country. Previous outbreaks...
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    The Kivu Ebola epidemic was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) mainly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in other parts of Central...
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    An epidemic of Ebola virus disease occurred in Liberia from 2014 to 2015, along with the neighbouring countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone. The first cases...
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    Four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") occurred in the United States in 2014. Eleven cases were reported, including...
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    skin. The disease can cause haemorrhage, fever, and other symptoms similar to Ebola, which belongs to the same family of viruses. According to the WHO,...
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    In August–November 1976, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The first recorded case was...
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    victims of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa in 2014 and 2015, and a single case in 1976, when a laboratory technician contracted the disease in a needlestick...
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    Cases of the Ebola virus disease in Nigeria were reported in 2014 as a small part of the epidemic of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") which...
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    first vaccine to be approved in the United States was rVSV-ZEBOV in December 2019. It had been used extensively in the Kivu Ebola epidemic under a compassionate...
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    Peter Piot (category Ebola researchers)
    research into Ebola and AIDS. After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that same...
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    virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVV). Its clinical symptoms are very similar to those of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Egyptian fruit bats are believed to...
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    The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa has had a large effect on the culture of most of the West African countries. In most instances, the effect is...
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    The Ebola Medal for Service in West Africa, known simply as the Ebola Medal, is a service medal for issue to the Armed Forces and to civilians, working...
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    African Ebola virus epidemic is the largest Ebola outbreak (cases and deaths) ever documented. Researchers believe that a 2-year-old boy who lived in the village...
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    to increased mistrust between West Africans and medical professionals. In 2014, ebola virus epidemic broke out in West Africa. The first cases of the...
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    cause of the 2013–2016 epidemic in western Africa, which resulted in at least 28,646 suspected cases and 11,323 confirmed deaths. Ebola virus and its genus...
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    In 2014, Ebola virus disease in Spain occurred due to two patients with cases of the disease contracted during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa;...
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    stomatitis virus–Zaire Ebola virus (rVSV-ZEBOV), also known as Ebola Zaire vaccine live and sold under the brand name Ervebo, is an Ebola vaccine for...
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    followed Ebola virus disease for 20 years, but it became more widely reported with the large number of survivors of the deadly epidemic in West Africa in 2014...
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    health care beds. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa Responses to the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa Ebola virus disease in the United Kingdom "Inside...
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    Ebola virus disease in Mali occurred in October 2014, leading to concern about the possibility of an outbreak of Ebola in Mali. A child was brought from...
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  • doctor says he has the Ebola virus. Kai is one of the rare people immune to Ebola and becomes a living carrier who can spread the disease to others through...
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    There is a cure for the Ebola virus disease that is currently approved for market the US government has inventory in the Strategic National Stockpile....
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    Ebola virus outbreak 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak West Africa Ebola virus epidemic 2018 Kivu Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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