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Sierra Leone imposes quarantine on hundreds of people following a recent death from the Ebola virus.
2016-01-17

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

Sierra Leone quarantines 700 homes in the Aberdeen district of Freetown following the death of a fisherman.
2015-02-13

A Maine judge imposes limited restrictions, but rejects state officials' bid to quarantine nurse Kaci Hickox, who returned to the United States last week after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
2014-10-31

Australia issues a blanket ban on issuing visas for residents of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries worst affected by the Ebola epidemic.
2014-10-28

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

The World Health Organisation estimates that the death toll from the outbreak has passed 4000 with all but nine deaths occurring in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
2014-10-10

Three people in Mali, which has had no cases, are injected with an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus, the first such trial in Africa.
2014-10-10

The World Health Organisation says that the death toll from the Ebola virus is over 2,900.
2014-09-26

The World Health Organisation reports that 932 have died from the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus with a man reportedly dying of the disease in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after a business trip to Sierra Leone.
2014-08-6