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The World Health Organisation confirms a second new case of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.
2016-01-21

The World Health Organisation declares an end to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa with Liberia the last country to be declared free of the virus.
2016-01-14

The World Health Organisation declares Senegal to be free of the Ebola virus.
2014-10-17

A Spanish nurse becomes the first person to be infected with the Ebola virus outside West Africa.
2014-10-6

The official death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak reaches 3,000 with the World Health Organisation warning that the official figures "vastly underestimate the true scale of the epidemic".
2014-09-27

The United States will send thousands of troops to West Africa to build Ebola virus clinics and train health workers.
2014-09-16

Cuba announces plans to send 165 medical staff to West Africa to help combat the Ebola virus outbreak that has claimed more than 2,400 lives.
2014-09-12

The World Health Organisation estimates that the death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak has risen to 887.
2014-08-4

Liberia closes schools and quarantines communities in order to stop the spread of the Ebola virus that has claimed 672 lives in West Africa.
2014-07-30

Medical teams from the World Health Organisation and Doctors Without Borders arrive in Sierra Leone to deal with an outbreak of Ebola virus.
2014-05-29