Sources: NPR
The World Health Organization declares the Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda and Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a public health emergency of international concern. 2026-05-16
Sierra Leone imposes quarantine on hundreds of people following a recent death from the Ebola virus. 2016-01-17
The World Health Organization declares that the outbreak of the Ebola virus has ceased in Liberia after weeks of no cases there. 2015-05-9
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 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 states that the Ebola virus outbreak is an international public health emergency. 2014-08-8
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
The ebola virus outbreak in West Africa continues to get worse with the death toll now exceeding 500. 2014-07-14