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This article covers the '''timeline''' of the 2014 '''Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa''' and its outbreaks elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-chronology-idUSKBN0GZ2QP20140904|title=Timeline: World's worst Ebola outbreak tests global response|work=Reuters|access-date=13 October 2014|date=4 September 2014}}</ref> Flag icons denote the first announcements of confirmed cases by the respective nation-states, their first deaths, and their first secondary transmissions, as well as relevant sessions and announcements of agencies such as the [[Organization:World Health Organization|World Health Organization]] (WHO), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders; medical evacuations, visa restrictions, border closures, [[Medicine:Quarantine|quarantine]]s, court rulings, and possible cases of [[Biology:Zoonosis|zoonosis]] are also included.

==Timeline==
Take note that the date of the first confirmations of the disease or any event in a country may be before or after the date of the events in local time because of the International Dateline.

===December 2013===
{{flagicon|Guinea}} '''Guinea''' Researchers believe that a 2-year-old boy was the [[Medicine:Index case|index case]] of the current [[Medicine:Ebola virus disease|Ebola virus disease]] epidemic. He died in December 2013 in the village of Meliandou, Guéckédou Prefecture. His mother, sister, and grandmother then became ill with similar symptoms and also died. Although Ebola represents a significant public health problem in [[Place:Sub-Saharan Africa|sub-Saharan Africa]] and was documented<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/179/Supplement_1/S120.long|title=Ebola Virus Outbreak among Wild Chimpanzees Living in a Rain Forest of Côte d'Ivoire|date=Feb 1999|doi=10.1086/514296|last=Formenty|first=Pierre|journal=J. Infect. Dis.|volume=179|pages=S120–S126|pmid=9988175|issue=s1|display-authors=0|doi-access=free}}</ref> in Tai Forest [[Biology:Common chimpanzee|chimpanzees]], only one case had been reported in humans in [[Place:West Africa|West Africa]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2895%2990925-7/abstract|date=1995|last1=Le Guenno|first1=B|last2=Formenty|first2=P|last3=Wyers|first3=M|title=Isolation and partial characterisation of a new strain of Ebola virus|journal=Lancet|volume=345|pages=1271–1274|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(95)90925-7|issue=8960|display-authors=0|pmid=7746057|s2cid=38897209}}</ref> With this background and in the context of poor public health systems,<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/18/ebola-liberia-epidemic-rumors/|title=Ebola in Liberia: An Epidemic of Rumors|author=Helen Epstein|date=18 December 2014|journal=New York Review of Books|access-date=6 January 2015}}</ref> the early cases were mis-diagnosed as diseases more common to the area. Thus [[Medicine:Ebola virus disease|Ebola virus disease]] spread for several months before it was recognized as such.<ref name="Baize-2014">{{cite journal|title=Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea&nbsp;— Preliminary Report|date=16 April 2014 |doi=10.1056/NEJMoa1404505 |last1=Baize |first1=Sylvain |last2=Pannetier |first2=Delphine |last3=Oestereich|first3=Lisa|last4=Rieger|first4=Toni|journal=New England Journal of Medicine |pmid=24738640 |volume=371 |issue=15 |pages=1418–25|s2cid=34198809 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Tracing Ebola's Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old">{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |last1=Grady |first1=Denise |first2=Sheri |last2=Fink |title=Tracing Ebola's Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old |work=The New York Times |date=9 August 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/world/africa/tracing-ebolas-breakout-to-an-african-2-year-old.html |access-date=14 August 2014}}</ref> In late October 2014, the child was identified as Emile Ouamouno.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/28/health/ebola-patient-zero/index.html|title=Ebola: Patient zero was a toddler in Guinea |author=Holly Yan and Esprit Smith, CNN|date=28 October 2014|work=CNN|access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/ebola-patient-zero-emile-ouamouno-guinea-first-contract-disease-1714698|title=Ebola Patient Zero: Emile Ouamouno Of Guinea First To Contract Disease|date=28 October 2014|work=International Business Times|access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref> A tree was later identified in the area where children were known to play with insect-eating Angolan free-tailed bats<ref name=mg>{{cite web|last1=AFP|date=30 December 2014|title=Hollow tree in Guinea was Ebola's Ground Zero, scientists say|url=http://mgafrica.com/article/2014-12-30-hollow-tree-in-guinea-was-ebolas-ground-zero-scientists-say|website=Mail & Guardian Africa|access-date=1 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130206/http://mgafrica.com/article/2014-12-30-hollow-tree-in-guinea-was-ebolas-ground-zero-scientists-say|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and hunting and grilling them to eat. Contact with these bats, which are well-known Ebola reservoirs, may have been the immediate cause of the outbreak, though this remains speculative.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hollow-tree-was-ebolas-ground-zero-scientists/ar-BBhlS79|title=Hollow tree was Ebola's Ground Zero: scientists|website=[[Software:MSN|MSN]] |access-date=2014-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060935/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hollow-tree-was-ebolas-ground-zero-scientists/ar-BBhlS79|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===March 2014===
[[File:Evolution of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in semiLog plot..png|right|thumb|Evolution of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in semiLog plot]]
{{flagicon|Guinea}} '''Guinea''' On March 18 Guinean health officials announce the outbreak of a mysterious hemorrhagic fever "which strikes like lightning." 35 cases are reported, and at least 23 people died.<ref name="Reuters_March2014">{{cite news|title=Mystery hemorrhagic fever kills 23 in Guinea|url=https://news.yahoo.com/mystery-hemorrhagic-fever-kills-23-guinea-121212535.html|access-date=24 October 2014|agency={{wipe|Reuters}}|date=19 March 2014}}</ref> On March 22, Guinea confirms the fever as Ebola, with 59 possible fatalities.<ref>{{cite news|title=Guinea Confirms Ebola Has Killed up to 59|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/africa/guinea-confirms-ebola-has-killed-59-n59686|access-date=9 December 2014|agency={{wipe|Reuters}}|date=22 March 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On March 24, two suspected cases in Liberia are announced by the Liberian Ministries of Information, Culture, Tourism, and Health. The government had also stated that Ebola had 'crossed over into Liberia,' but did not confirm the information.<ref name="LibObs-2of5">{{cite web|url=http://www.liberianobserver.com/security-health/2-5-test-positive-ebola-liberia|title=2 of 5 Test Positive for Ebola in Liberia|publisher=Liberianobserver.com|access-date=13 October 2014|archive-date=9 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709004219/http://www.liberianobserver.com/security-health/2-5-test-positive-ebola-liberia|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Switzerland}} '''Médecins Sans Frontières''' On March 24,  Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) establish an isolation center in Guéckédou Prefecture, Guinea, the first in West Africa to be built expressly for the purpose of halting the epidemic.<ref name="msf_2014">{{cite news|author1=Médecins Sans Frontières|title=Guinea: Ebola epidemic declared|url=http://www.msf.org.uk/article/guinea-ebola-epidemic-declared|access-date=24 October 2014|date=24 March 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' On March 25, the [[Organization:World Health Organization|World Health Organization]] (WHO) released its first report concerning Ebola in West Africa, wherein it is stated that thirteen Guinean cases from four districts of the country were confirmed by the [[Organization:Pasteur Institute|Institut Pasteur]] and the Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie in Lyon.<ref name="whomarch_2014">{{cite web|author1=World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa|title=Ebola virus disease in Guinea (Situation as of 25 March 2014)|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4065-ebola-virus-disease-in-guinea-25-march-2014.html|access-date=24 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006173558/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4065-ebola-virus-disease-in-guinea-25-march-2014.html|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Mauritania }} '''Mauritania ''' Since 26 March, Mauritania closed all crossings along the Senegal River, the natural border between Mauritania and Senegal, except for the Rosso and Diama points of entry.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.sudonline.sn/le-fleuve-senegal-infranchissable-depuis-mardi-dernier-----_a_18201.html | title = The uncrossable river Senegal since last Tuesday | first = Pape | last = Ndiaye Moctar | date = 29 March 2014 | access-date = 31 March 2014 | newspaper = Sud Quotidien | language = fr | archive-date = 3 February 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150203132121/http://www.sudonline.sn/le-fleuve-senegal-infranchissable-depuis-mardi-dernier-----_a_18201.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On March 27, the government of Liberia revised its statement from March 24 stating that Ebola was not present within the country -a later report from the WHO reversed the country's position a second time.<ref name="LibObs-2of5"/>

{{flagicon|Senegal}} '''Senegal''' On March 28 Senegal closed its border with Guinea in an effort to halt the virus from spreading.<ref name="LibObs-2of5"/>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On March 31 the first cases of [[Medicine:Ebola virus disease|EVD]] are confirmed in Liberia, in two patients in Lofa and Nimba counties -they had been the subject of a March 24 press report on EVD  mentioned previously. The patient in Lofa County died on the day of her diagnosis, becoming the first death in Liberia.<ref name="LibObs-2of5"/>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On March 31, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a five-person team to Guinea for the purpose of aiding the Guinean Ministry of Health and the WHO in containing the outbreak.<ref name=cdcpreviousupdates>{{cite web|title=Previous Updates: 2014 West Africa Outbreak|url=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/previous-updates.html|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' By the end of March, the WHO announced that there had been 112 cases and 70 deaths due to Ebola overall (including suspected cases.) Two confirmed cases originated in Liberia, and several suspected cases were reported from Sierra Leone and Liberia.<ref name=WHO30march2014>{{cite web|title=Ebola virus disease in Guinea – update|url=https://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_03_30_ebola/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331155406/http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_03_30_ebola/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 31, 2014|publisher=World Health Organization|date=30 March 2014|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

===April 2014===
{{flagicon|Mali}} '''Mali''' On April 7, six suspected cases were announced by Mali but were later confirmed as not being related to EVD.<ref name="WHORegional_Apr2014">{{cite web|title=Dashboard - Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa (07 April 2014)|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4100-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-16-april-2014.html%3C/ref%3E%3Cref%3Ehttp://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4089-dashboard-ebola-virus-disease-in-west-africa-07-april-2014.html|publisher=World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa|access-date=24 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024070634/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4100-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-16-april-2014.html%3C/ref%3E%3Cref%3Ehttp://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4089-dashboard-ebola-virus-disease-in-west-africa-07-april-2014.html|archive-date=24 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On April 12, new cases were reported in Margibi and Montserrado counties, raising the total number of counties holding patients with EVD to four.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mohsw.gov.lr/documents/13aprilEbola%20Virus%20Disease%20Epidemic%20in%20Liberia.%20Sitrep%20No.11(1).pdf |title=Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Liberia: Situation Report 11 |publisher=Ministry of Health and Social Welfare |date=13 April 2014 |place=LR |access-date=6 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530123349/http://www.mohsw.gov.lr/documents/13aprilEbola%20Virus%20Disease%20Epidemic%20in%20Liberia.%20Sitrep%20No.11%281%29.pdf |archive-date=30 May 2014 }}</ref>

{{flagicon|Guinea}} '''Guinea''' On April 30, Guinea's Ministry of Health reported 221 suspected and confirmed cases as well as 146 deaths in Guinea alone. Of the 221, 26 were health workers.<ref name=cdcpreviousupdates/><ref name="7April2014WHO'">{{cite web|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 7 April 2014)|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4087-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-7-april-2014.html|publisher=World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa|access-date=24 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006171635/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4087-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-7-april-2014.html|archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' By the end of April, WHO statistics showed 239 cases and 160 deaths overall.<ref name="DON 02MAY14">{{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4130-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-2-may-2014.html|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 2 May 2014)|publisher=WHO|access-date=18 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924161949/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4130-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-2-may-2014.html|archive-date=24 September 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===May 2014===
{{flagicon|Guinea}} '''Guinea''' On May 12, cases were reported in [[Place:Conakry|Conakry]], the capital of Guinea and a city with a population of around two million people.<ref name=cdcpreviousupdates/>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}}'''Sierra Leone''' On May 26 WHO reports the first cases and deaths in Sierra Leone, in Kailahun District.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4143-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-26-may-2014.html|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Update of 26 May 2014)|publisher=Afro.who.int|access-date=13 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729184549/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4143-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-26-may-2014.html|archive-date=29 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/25/sierra-leone-hero-doctor-death-exposes-slow-ebola-response/ |title=Sierra Leone 'hero' doctor's death exposes slow Ebola response |publisher=Fox News |date=25 August 2014 |access-date=25 August 2014}}</ref> They are traced back to the funeral of a widely respected traditional healer from Kailahun who had contracted the disease after treating Ebola patients from across the border in Guinea.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sierra Leone: a traditional healer and a funeral More than 300 Ebola cases link back to one funeral|url=https://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/ebola-6-months/sierra-leone/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925090337/http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/ebola-6-months/sierra-leone/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 25, 2014|publisher=WHO|access-date=9 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' By the end of May, WHO statistics showed 383 cases and 211 deaths overall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4157-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-1-june-2014.html|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 01 June 2014)|publisher=WHO|access-date=18 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924172323/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4157-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-1-june-2014.html|archive-date=24 September 2014}}</ref>

===June 2014===
[[File:Kenema Hospital Sierra Leone Ebola.JPG|right|thumb|Kenema Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone]]

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On June 11, Sierra Leone closed its borders with Liberia and Guinea and closed a number of schools around the country.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-leone-idUKKBN0EM2CG20140611|title=Sierra Leone shuts borders, closes schools to fight Ebola |work=Reuters |date=11 June 2014}}</ref> On 30 July, the government began to deploy troops to enforce quarantines.<ref name="News 24">{{cite news |url=http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Sierra-Leone-Liberia-deploy-troops-for-Ebola-20140804 |title=Sierra Leone, Liberia deploy troops for Ebola|publisher=News 24 |date=4 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On June 17, Liberia reports that EVD has reached its capital, Monrovia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27888363 |title=Seven die in Monrovia Ebola outbreak |work=BBC News |date=17 June 2014 |access-date=28 July 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On June 20, the WHO announces up to 158 cases in Sierra Leone. In addition to Kailahun District, cases were also reported in Kenema, Kambia, Port Loko, and Western Area Rural districts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4172-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-23-june-2014.html|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update 23 June 2014|publisher=WHO|access-date=18 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728191200/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4172-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-23-june-2014.html|archive-date=28 July 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Switzerland}} '''Médecins Sans Frontières ''' On June 21, Doctors Without Borders declares the second wave of the outbreak "totally out of control" and calls for massive resources.<ref name="Inquirerpress_2014">{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Doctors Without Borders: Ebola 'out of control'|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/613145/doctors-without-borders-ebola-out-of-control|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=The Inquirer|date=21 June 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' By the end of June, WHO statistics showed 779 cases and 481 deaths overall.<ref name="WHO 2014-07-03">{{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4216-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-3-july-2014.html|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update 3 July 2014|publisher=WHO|access-date=18 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728210024/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4216-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-3-july-2014.html|archive-date=28 July 2014}}</ref>

===July 2014===
{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On July 14, the Bo District of central Sierra Leone reports its first case.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=319045434938972&id=281064805403702|title=Ebola Update July 14, 2014|website=[[Company:Facebook|Facebook]] |access-date=17 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone'''  On July 17, the number of EVD cases in Sierra Leone surpasses those of Liberia and Guinea at 442.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4225-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-18-july-2014.html|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update 18 July 2014|publisher=WHO|access-date=18 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725195212/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4225-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-18-july-2014.html|archive-date=25 July 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' On July 18 WHO regards the disease trend in Sierra Leone and Liberia as "serious" with 67 new cases and 19 deaths reported to date.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4225-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-18-july-2014.html|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update 18 July 2014|publisher=Afro.who.int|access-date=13 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725195212/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4225-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-18-july-2014.html|archive-date=25 July 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Nigeria}} '''Nigeria''' On July 25 Nigeria reports its first fatality, a Liberian-American man who died in Lagos.<ref name="euronewsjul_2014">{{cite news|title=Nigeria confirms first deadly Ebola case|url=http://www.euronews.com/2014/07/26/nigeria-confirms-first-deadly-ebola-case|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=Euronews|date=26 July 2014|archive-date=25 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025220958/http://www.euronews.com/2014/07/26/nigeria-confirms-first-deadly-ebola-case/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On July 25, the first case in [[Place:Freetown|Freetown]], Sierra Leone's capital, is recorded. The city has a population of over one million people.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28485041 |title=Sierra Leone hunts Ebola patient kidnapped in Freetown |work=BBC News |date=25 July 2014 |access-date=27 July 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On July 27, Liberian President [[Biography:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf|Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]] declared the country's borders to be closed; some exceptions such as Roberts International Airport remain open with the addition of screening centers there. Sirleaf also announced that football events were to be banned, schools and universities closed, and the worst-affected areas of Liberia to be placed under quarantine.<ref name=BBC_28_July_2014>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28522824 |title=Ebola outbreak: Liberia shuts most border points |work=BBC News |date=28 July 2014 |access-date=28 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28550906|title=Ebola outbreak: Asky bans flights in West Africa|work=BBC News|date=29 July 2014|access-date=29 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kwanue|first=C.Y.|url=http://www.liberianobserver.com/security/compliance-sirleaf%E2%80%99s-mandate-ul-closed|title=In Compliance with Sirleaf's Mandate, UL Closed|work=Liberian Observer|date=1 August 2014|access-date=2 August 2014|archive-date=8 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808051313/http://www.liberianobserver.com/security/compliance-sirleaf%E2%80%99s-mandate-ul-closed|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/health-ebola-africa-idUSL6N0Q56DX20140730|title=Liberia shuts schools, quarantines communities in bid to halt Ebola|work=Reuters|date=30 July 2014|access-date=30 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28522824|title = Ebola outbreak: Liberia shuts most border points|work = BBC News|date = 28 July 2014|access-date = 28 July 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On July 29 Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, who was leading Sierra Leone's fight against the epidemic, dies of the virus, the first health worker to succumb.<ref name="nyctimes_August2014">{{cite news|last1=McNeil Jr.|first1=Donald G.|title=Outbreak in Sierra Leone Is Tied to Single Funeral Where 14 Women Were Infected|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/health/ebola-outbreak-in-sierra-leone-is-tied-to-one-funeral.html|access-date=24 October 2014|work=New York Times|date=28 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On July 30 Liberia shuts schools and orders the [[Medicine:Quarantine|quarantining]] of the worst-affected communities, employing its military.<ref name="BBCNews_August2014">{{cite news|title=Ebola crisis: Liberian troops impose slum quarantine|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28865632|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=BBC News Africa|date=20 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On 30 July, the government allowed the deployment of troops to maintain quarantines in the country.<ref name="News 24"/>

{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' On July 31 the [[Organization:Peace Corps|Peace Corps]] withdraws all volunteers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, citing Ebola risks.<ref name="PeaceCorpsupdate_2014">{{cite web|title=Ebola Update|url=http://www.peacecorps.gov/resources/faf/fafhealth/ebola/|website=peacecorps.gov|publisher=Peace Corps|access-date=24 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022035731/http://www.peacecorps.gov/resources/faf/fafhealth/ebola/|archive-date=22 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' By the end of July, WHO statistics showed 1,603 cases and 887 deaths overall.<ref name="WHO 2014-08-04">{{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4239-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-4-august-2014.html|title=Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update 4 August 2014|publisher=WHO|access-date=18 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924153202/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4239-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-4-august-2014.html|archive-date=24 September 2014}}</ref>

===August 2014===
{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' On August 2 an American missionary aid worker infected with EVD in Liberia, Dr. Kent Brantly, is medically evacuated to Atlanta, Georgia for treatment at Emory University Hospital.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/index.html?hpt=hp_t2|title=Ebola drug likely saved American patients|publisher=CNN.com|date=August 8, 2014|access-date=August 8, 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On August 4 the [[Organization:World Bank|World Bank]] announces up to $200 million in emergency assistance for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.<ref name="WorldBankRelease_2014">{{cite news|author1=Press Release|title=Ebola: World Bank Group Mobilizes Emergency Funding to Fight Epidemic in West Africa|url=http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/08/04/ebola-world-bank-group-mobilizes-emergency-funding-for-guinea-liberia-and-sierra-leone-to-fight-epidemic|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=The World Bank|date=4 August 2014}}</ref>


{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On August 6, President Sirleaf announced that a state of emergency was to be enforced in Liberia, remarking that "certain rights and privileges" would be sacrificed in doing so.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.heritageliberia.net/index.php/inside-heritage/general-news/78-slides/3611-ellen-declares-state-of-emergency|title=Ellen Declares State of Emergency|publisher=Executive Mansion via Heritage|date=6 August 2014|access-date=7 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On August 7 WHO declares the EVD epidemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).<ref name=statementaugust>{{cite web|author1=WHO Statement|title=WHO Statement on the Meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee Regarding the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa|url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/ebola-20140808/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808155521/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/ebola-20140808/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 8, 2014|publisher=World Health Organization|access-date=25 October 2014|date=8 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="Schnirring_2014">{{cite news|last1=Schnirring|first1=Lisa|title=WHO declares Ebola a public health emergency|url=http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/08/who-declares-ebola-public-health-emergency|access-date=25 October 2014|work=Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy|publisher=[[Organization:University of Minnesota|University of Minnesota]]|date=8 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Ivory Coast}} '''Ivory Coast''' On August 11 the Ivory Coast began banning flights from neighboring Liberia.<ref name="Ivory Coast"/>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On August 12 WHO announces that the death toll has risen above 1,000, and approves the usage of unproven drugs and vaccines.<ref>{{cite news|author1=AP|title=Fears Ebola epidemic 'out of control' as death toll nears 1000|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/fears-ebola-epidemic-out-of-control-as-death-toll-nears-1000/story-e6frg6so-1227017178228|access-date=25 October 2014|work=The Australian|date=8 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=august2014news>{{cite news|title=Ebola virus death toll in West Africa passes 1,000|url=http://www.news.com.au/world/africa/ebola-virus-death-toll-in-west-africa-passes-1000/story-fnh81gzi-1227021656985|access-date=25 October 2014|work=News.com.au|date=12 August 2014|archive-date=25 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025031341/http://www.news.com.au/world/africa/ebola-virus-death-toll-in-west-africa-passes-1000/story-fnh81gzi-1227021656985|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=ebola1000deathsaugust>{{cite news|title=Ebola death toll nears 1000|url=http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/08/07/ebola-death-toll-reaches-932-says-who.html|access-date=25 October 2014|work=Sky News|date=7 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=Yan>{{cite news|last1=Yan|first1=Holly|last2=Levs|first2=Josh|title=A worried world watches as Ebola death toll rises; Liberia declares emergency|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/06/health/africa-ebola-outbreak/|access-date=25 October 2014|work=CNN.com|date=7 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''' On August 12 Brother Miguel Pajares, a Catholic priest who had been medically evacuated from Liberia where he had been volunteering, dies at Hospital Carlos III in Madrid.<ref>{{cite web |title=Muere el religioso español Miguel Pajares a causa del ébola |url=http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20140812/muere-religioso-espanol-miguel-pajares-causa-del-ebola/991420.shtml |publisher=RTVE |date=12 August 2014 |access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On August 14 WHO announces that the reports of EVD deaths and cases from the field "vastly underestimate" the scale of the outbreak.<ref>{{cite web|title=WHO, "No early end to the Ebola outbreak," Situation Assessment|url=https://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/overview-20140814/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816184642/http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/overview-20140814/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 16, 2014|publisher=World Health Organization|access-date=25 October 2014|date=14 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="Salaam_2014">{{cite book|last1=Salaam-Blyther|first1=Tiaji|title=The 2014 Ebola Outbreak: International and U.S. Responses|url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R43697.pdf|date=26 August 2014|publisher=[[Social:Congressional Research Service|Congressional Research Service]]|page=1|access-date=25 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Switzerland}} '''Médecins Sans Frontières ''' On August 15 Doctors Without Borders compares the EVD epidemic to "wartime," and estimates that it will take approximately six months to bring under control.<ref name=cbcnewshealthaugust>{{cite news|title=Ebola outbreak compared to wartime by Doctors Without Borders|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-outbreak-compared-to-wartime-by-doctors-without-borders-1.2737367|access-date=25 October 2014|work=CBC News Health|publisher=CBC News|date=15 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On August 19, the West Point neighborhood of Monrovia is entirely cordoned off in an effort to halt the spread of EVD in one of the country's worst-affected areas.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/liberian-soldiers-seal-slum-halt-ebola-n185046 |title=Liberian Soldiers Seal Slum to Halt Ebola |publisher=NBC News |date=2014-08-09 |access-date=2014-08-23}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On August 20 Liberian troops in Monrovia fired tear gas and live rounds at citizens attempting to break out of the quarantine of West Point, Monrovia; one adolescent dies of gunshot wounds.<ref name=monroviapolice>{{cite news|title=Ebola crisis: Liberia police fire at Monrovia protests|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28879471|access-date=25 October 2014|work=BBC News|date=21 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' On August 21 the two first medically evacuated cases in the US (missionaries Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly), having been successfully treated with the experimental therapy [[Biology:ZMapp|ZMapp]], are released from Emory University Hospital free of the virus. Kent Brantly's A+ type blood was later used to treat three other cases in the United States: these included the third and fifth medically evacuated cases Rick Sacra and Ashoka Mukpo as well as the second transmitted case Nina Pham.<ref name="Besser_Oct2014">{{cite news|last1=Besser|first1=Richard|last2=Zak|first2=Lana|title=Why Dr. Kent Brantly Couldn't Donate Blood to Thomas Eric Duncan|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/dr-kent-brantly-donate-blood-thomas-eric-duncan/story?id=26226388|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=ABC News|date=15 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Eboladoc_2014">{{cite news|title=American Ebola doc: 'I am thrilled to be alive'|url=https://news.yahoo.com/hospital-discuss-discharge-ebola-patients-100148319.html|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=Associated Press|date=21 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Ivory Coast}} '''Ivory Coast''' On August 21, the Ivory Coast closed its borders with both Guinea and Liberia. This action was preceded by a ban on flights between the Ivory Coast and Liberia.<ref name="Ivory Coast">{{cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201409292370.html |title=Liberia: Ivory Coast to Resume Air Traffic to Ebola-Hit Nations |quote=The Ivorian government has authorized the lifting of air traffic with countries affected by Ebola |work=allAfrica |publisher=allafrica.com |access-date=19 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of Congo}} '''Democratic Republic of Congo'''  On August 24 the DRC  announces an EVD outbreak in its northern Equateur province of a distinct strain from that of the larger West African outbreak.<ref name="Treatmentebola_2014">{{cite web|title=DRC: MSF treating Ebola in Equateur province despite difficult conditions|url=http://www.msf.org/article/drc-msf-treating-ebola-equateur-province-despite-difficult-conditions|publisher=Médecins Sans Frontières|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''United Kingdom''' On August 24 a British man (William Pooley) was evacuated from Sierra Leone to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital.<ref name=united_Kingdom_Ebola>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28919831 |title=British Ebola patient arrives in UK for hospital treatment |work=BBC News |date=24 August 2014|access-date=25 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Germany}} '''Germany''' On August 27, a Senegalese epidemiologist who was working in Sierra Leone for the WHO was transferred to an isolation ward in Hamburg, marking the first medically evacuated case in Germany.<ref name="berliner-zeitung.de">{{cite web|title=Hamburg clinic dismisses Ebola patient|url=http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/universitaetsklinikum-eppendorf-klinik-entlaesst-hamburger-ebola-patient,10808334,28645204.html|access-date=4 October 2014|language=de|date=2014-10-04}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On August 28 WHO announces that the death toll has climbed above 1,550, and warns that the outbreak could infect more than 20,000 people. It also announces that $490 million shall be needed over the next six months.<ref name=28August2014ie>{{cite news|author1=Irish Independent|title=Ebola outbreak accelerates as death toll tops 1,550 - WHO|url=http://www.independent.ie/world-news/africa/ebola-outbreak-accelerates-as-death-toll-tops-1550-who-30544114.html|access-date=24 October 2014|date=28 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="Smith-Spark_2014">{{cite news|last1=Smith-Spark|first1=Laura|title=Death toll passes 1,550 as Ebola outbreak accelerates, officials say|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/28/world/africa/ebola-outbreak/|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=CNN|date=28 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''US''' Also on August 28 the journal Science publishes the seminal paper ''Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak,'' five of whose co-authors themselves died of EVD before publication.<ref name="nyctimes_August2014"/><ref name=genomicsurvelliance2014>{{cite journal|last1=Gire|first1=Stephen K.|last2=Goba|first2=Augustine|title=Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak|journal=Science|date=28 August 2014|doi=10.1126/science.1259657|pmid=25214632|volume=345|issue=6202|pages=1369–72|pmc=4431643|bibcode=2014Sci...345.1369G}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Senegal}} '''Senegal''' On August 29  Senegal confirmed its first EVD case, in a Guinean citizen who was travelling to [[Place:Dakar|Dakar]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Senegal's First Ebola case raises fear over virus' spread|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-ebola-africa-20140829-story.html|access-date=17 October 2014 | work=Los Angeles Times|date=29 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On August 30 the World Food Program announces that it needs $70 million to feed 1.3 million people at risk in Ebola-quarantined areas.<ref name=WHO70million>{{cite news|author2=Dakar|title=WFP says it needs $70 million to feed 1.3 million people in Ebola quarantine|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-wfp-idUSKBN0GU0H820140830|access-date=24 October 2014|work=Reuters|date=30 August 2014|first=Daniel|last=Flynn}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On August 30, the quarantine of the neighborhood of West Point, Monrovia is lifted after riots on August 20.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1535534/liberia-reopens-monrovia-slum-barricaded-to-contain-ebola-outbreak/ |title=Liberian Ebola survivor calls for quick production of experimental drug |publisher=Global News |date=30 August 2014 |access-date=30 August 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On August 31 Liberia began denying sailors from entering or disembarking from vessels at the country's four main seaports.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/24856656/ebola-hit-liberia-bans-sailors-from-disembarking/ |title=Ebola-hit Liberia bans sailors from disembarking |work=Yahoo News |date=31 August 2014 |access-date=30 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006090916/https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/24856656/ebola-hit-liberia-bans-sailors-from-disembarking/ |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' By the end of August, WHO statistics showed 3,707 cases and 1,808 deaths overall.<ref name="WHO_31Aug">{{cite web|url=http://who.int/csr/don/2014_09_04_ebola/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904215919/http://who.int/csr/don/2014_09_04_ebola/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2014|title=WHO: Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Report 2, 5 September 2014|publisher=WHO|access-date=18 September 2014}}</ref>

===September 2014===
[[File:PPE Training (2).jpg|thumbnail|WHO training of Nigerian physicians in PPE procedures in late September]]

{{flagicon|Ivory Coast}} '''Ivory Coast''' On September 1 the Ivory Coast loosens its ban on travel into Liberia by opening several humanitarian corridors between the two countries.<ref name="Ivory Coast"/>

{{flagicon|Switzerland}} '''Médecins Sans Frontières ''' On September 2 Doctors Without Borders president Joanne Liu warns the U.N. that the world is losing the battle against EVD, and harshly criticizes a "coalition of inaction." Infectious bodies are rotting in the streets in Sierra Leone, and crematoria rather than new Ebola treatment centers are being built in Liberia.<ref name=CDLauren>{{cite news|last1=McCauley|first1=Lauren|title=As Ebola Outbreak Surges, Health Officials Slam International 'Coalition of Inaction'|url=http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/03/ebola-outbreak-surges-health-officials-slam-international-coalition-inaction|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=Common Dreams|date=3 September 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' Also on September 2, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns that the epidemic has endangered harvests and sent food prices soaring in West Africa, a problem it expects to intensify in the coming months.<ref name="ictsd_2014">{{cite news|title=FAO: Ebola Outbreak Putting West African Trade, Food Security in Jeopardy|url=http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges/news/fao-ebola-outbreak-putting-west-african-trade-food-security-in-jeopardy|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development|date=10 September 2014|archive-date=23 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923164846/http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges/news/fao-ebola-outbreak-putting-west-african-trade-food-security-in-jeopardy|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="FAOUN_2014">{{cite web|title=West Africa: Ebola outbreak puts harvests at risk, sends food prices shooting up|url=http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/242177/icode/|publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|access-date=24 October 2014|location=Rome|date=2 September 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN'''  On September 3 the Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan, remarks at a Washington, D.C. press conference that the EVD epidemic was "the largest, most complex and most severe we've ever seen," and that it was racing ahead of control efforts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/ebola-response-needs/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907161412/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/ebola-response-needs/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 7, 2014|title=WHO - UN senior leaders outline needs for global Ebola response|publisher=Who.int|access-date=13 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''United Kingdom''' On September 3, the patient previously being isolated at the Royal Free Hospital was released. The patient (who was identified as the British nurse William Pooley) allowed blood to be drawn to treat future patients -the fourth medically evacuated patient in the United States later received his transfusion and successfully recovered. (The transfusion may have contributed).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/ebola/57952/ebola-british-nurse-makes-full-recovery-and-leaves-hospital|title=Ebola: British nurse makes full recovery and leaves hospital|magazine=The Week|date=3 September 2014|access-date=5 September 2014|archive-date=5 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905022612/http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/ebola/57952/ebola-british-nurse-makes-full-recovery-and-leaves-hospital|url-status=dead}}</ref>


{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On September 8, the WHO reported that EVD was present in fourteen out of Liberia's fifteen counties. The remaining county without confirmed cases is Grand Gedeh County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/liberias-ebola-problem-far-worse-imagined-says-who|title=Liberia's Ebola problem far worse than imagined, says WHO|publisher=News.sciencemag.org|access-date=1 October 2014|date=2014-09-08}}</ref> The only county free of Ebola as of October 10 was Grand Gedeh County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/distribution-map.html|title= "Ebola distribution map", Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accessed October 20, 2014.|date= 2019-03-29}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On September 9, a fourth patient was removed from West Africa and placed into the United States. The doctor (whose identity has not been released) was working in Sierra Leone for the WHO and had begun treatment at Emory University Hospital. In order to recover from the virus, the patient was scheduled to receive serum from the British medically evacuated case William Pooley.<ref name="WashingPost_2014">{{cite news|last1=du Lac|first1=J. Freedom|last2=Phillip|first2=Abby|title=Little-mentioned patient at Emory expects to be discharged 'very soon, free from the Ebola virus'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/15/little-mentioned-patient-at-emory-expects-to-be-discharged-very-soon-free-from-the-ebola-virus/|access-date=24 October 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=15 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Australia}} '''Australia''' On September 17, Australia donated 7 million Australian Dollars to the British government, the WHO, and MSF for the purpose of aiding the countries affected by the EVD outbreak. MSF declined the offer, stating that military and medical help were more crucial to their effort than financial support.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australia Promises $6.4 Million to Fight Ebola|website=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/australia-promises-64-million-fight-ebola-25554711|access-date=18 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Calls for civil and military aid to combat Ebola, not just cash|url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2014/s4089668.htm|publisher=ABC|access-date=21 September 2014|date=2014-09-17}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On 18 September  the UN General Assembly and the Security Council approve resolutions creating the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), the first time in history the UN has created a mission for a health emergency.<ref name="einnews_2014">{{cite news|title=WHO Welcomes decision to establish United Nations mission for Ebola emergency response|url=http://www.einnews.com/pr_news/224890550/who-welcomes-decision-to-establish-united-nations-mission-for-ebola-emergency-response|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=Ein News|date=19 September 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Guinea}} '''Guinea''' Also on September 18 it is reported that eight health workers and journalists were killed by villagers in Womey, Nzérékoré Prefecture; their bodies were dumped in a septic tank. They disappeared after a riot opposed to their presence broke out—strong animosity had been directed towards health teams advising villagers about EVD previously.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/18/missing-health-workers-in-guinea-were-educating-villagers-about-ebola-when-they-were-attacked/|title=Eight dead in attack on Ebola team in Guinea. 'Killed in cold blood.'|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=13 October 2014|first=Abby|last=Phillip|date=18 September 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|France}} '''France''' On September 19 the first French national to be infected with EVD, a volunteer nurse  for Doctors Without Borders, is medically evacuated from Liberia to the  Bégin military hospital on the outskirts of Paris. She later recovered and was released October 4. The death toll in West Africa is nearly 2,400.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20140917-france-ebola-msf-volunteer-liberia-girardin-health/|title=Africa - French MSF volunteer contracts Ebola in Liberia|work=France 24|access-date=13 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014104035/http://www.france24.com/en/20140917-france-ebola-msf-volunteer-liberia-girardin-health/|archive-date=14 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20141004-french-nurse-cured-ebola|title=French nurse cured of Ebola|work=RFI|access-date=6 October 2014|date=2014-10-04}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''' On September 21, the second medically evacuated case in Spain arrived at Madrid's Hospital Carlos III. Brother Manuel García Viejo, another Spanish citizen who was medical director at the St John of God Hospital Sierra Leone in Lunsar, had been transported to Spain from Sierra Leone after being infected with the virus.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ebola-outbreak-spanish-missionary-manuel-garcia-viejo-dies-deadly-virus-madrid-1467233|title=Ebola Outbreak: Spanish Missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo Dies of Deadly Virus in Madrid|date=25 September 2014|access-date=3 November 2014|work=International Business Times}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Switzerland}} '''Switzerland''' On September 22 a Swiss health worker was flown out from Sierra Leone to the University Hospital of Geneva after being bitten by an Ebola-infected child.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ebola-outbreak-swiss-nurse-flown-back-to-geneva-after-being-bitten-by-child-infected-with-disease-9751147.html|title=Ebola outbreak: Swiss nurse flown back to Geneva after being bitten by child infected with disease|date=22 September 2014|access-date=3 November 2014|work=The Independent|location=London|first=Adam|last=Withnall}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Nigeria}} '''Nigeria''' On September 22, the WHO reported an overall total of 20 cases and 8 deaths in Nigeria. There have been no new cases since the announcement thus far, and so EVD appears to be contained there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/neil-seeman/nigeria-ebola_b_5869680.html |title=Nigeria's Optimism Amid Ebola's Threat |date=24 September 2014 |access-date=25 September 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On September 22, a new 150-bed treatment center was opened in [[Place:Monrovia|Monrovia]], with patients arriving the day of its establishment.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201409221723.html |title=Liberia: 120-Bed Ebola Treatment Center Opens in Liberia |work=All Africa |date=22 September 2014 |access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On September 24, the first EVD case in the United States (Thomas Eric Duncan) visits the emergency room of the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, where he is diagnosed with a 'low-grade, common viral disease' and sent home with antibiotics.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/01/texas-patient-with-ebola-told-hospital-workers-during-initial-visit-he-had-traveled-from-west-africa|title=Texas Ebola patient told hospital of travel from West Africa but was released|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=October 3, 2014|first=Mark|last=Berman|date=1 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''' On 25 September it was announced that Brother Manuel García Viejo, the second Spanish citizen infected with the virus, had died at Madrid's Hospital Carlos III.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ebola-outbreak-spanish-missionary-manuel-garcia-viejo-dies-deadly-virus-madrid-1467233|title=Ebola Outbreak: Spanish Missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo Dies of Deadly Virus in Madrid|date=25 September 2014|access-date=1 November 2014|work=International Business Times}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' On September 25, the third medically evacuated case in the US was released from the Nebraska Medical Center after three weeks of isolation. The patient, Rick Sacra, successfully convalesced with a blood transfusion from another American case.<ref name="Mohney_2014">{{cite news|last1=Mohney|first1=Gillian|title=American Doctor With Ebola Is 'Grateful' Following Release From Hospital|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/american-doctor-ebola-grateful-release-hospital/story?id=25755775|access-date=24 October 2014|publisher=ABC News|date=25 September 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''United Nations'''  On September 26, the WHO announces that "The Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of West Africa is the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times. Never before in recorded history has a biosafety level four pathogen infected so many people so quickly, over such a broad geographical area, for so long."<ref name=whoemergency26sept>{{cite web|title=Experimental therapies: growing interest in the use of whole blood or plasma from recovered Ebola patients (convalescent therapies)|url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/26-september-2014/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928143036/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/26-september-2014/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 28, 2014|publisher=World Health Organization|access-date=27 October 2014|date=26 September 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On September 28, Thomas Eric Duncan is isolated at the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, where nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson are exposed to Duncan's vomit and bodily fluids. Both later become the second and third cases of EVD within the United States.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-03/electronic-record-gap-allowed-ebola-man-to-leave-hospital.html|title=Electronic-Record Gap Allowed Ebola Patient to Leave Hospital|work=Bloomberg|access-date=October 3, 2014|first=Kelly|last=Gilblom|date=3 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-dallas-ebola-hospital-20141002-story.html|title=Dallas hospital says Ebola patient denied being around sick people|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=October 3, 2014|date=2 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Ivory Coast}} '''Ivory Coast''' On September 29, the Ivory Coast concluded its ban on flights from Liberia citing 'West African solidarity.'<ref name="Ivory Coast"/>
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{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' On September 30 the CDC announces the first case of EVD in the Americas, in Dallas, Texas. The anonymous patient (later confirmed as Thomas Eric Duncan) is "kept in strict isolation" at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ebola in the US – Ebola in Dallas|url=http://2014ebolaoutbreak.com/ebola-us/ebola-us-ebola-dallas/|work=2014 Ebola Outbreak|access-date=2014-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019004720/http://2014ebolaoutbreak.com/ebola-us/ebola-us-ebola-dallas/|archive-date=2014-10-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' By the end of September, WHO statistics showed 7,492 cases and 3,439 deaths overall.<ref name=Ebola_Outbreak_total_WHO_3_Oct>{{cite web|title=WHO: Ebola response roadmap update|url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/135765/1/roadmapupdate3oct14_eng.pdf|publisher=World Health Organization|access-date=5 November 2014}}</ref>

===October 2014===
{{flagicon|Guinea}} '''Guinea''' On October 2, the Governor of Conakry, Soriba Sorel Camara, decreed that all public festivities for the religious holiday of [[Religion:Eid al-Adha|Tabaski]] were to be henceforth forbidden after Doctors Without Borders noted a rapid spike of admitted patients in the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.actu224.com/le-gouverneur-interdit-tout-les-spectacles-prevus-pour-la-tabaski-m-thug-reagit/|title=Le gouverneur interdit tout les spectacles prévus pour la Tabaski, M. Thug réagit|publisher=ACTUU224.COM|date=3 October 2014|access-date=5 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006104959/http://www.actu224.com/le-gouverneur-interdit-tout-les-spectacles-prevus-pour-la-tabaski-m-thug-reagit/|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africaguinee.com/articles/2014/10/03/fete-de-tabaski-toutes-les-manifestations-culturelles-interdites-conakry|title=Fête de Tabaski: Toutes les manifestations culturelles interdites à Conakry... |publisher=Africaguinee.com|access-date=5 October 2014|date=2014-10-03 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msf.ca/en/article/ebola-new-spike-cases-guinea-pushes-conakry-treatment-centre-limit|title=Ebola: A new spike in cases in Guinea pushes Conakry treatment centre to the limit|publisher=MSF CANADA|date=9 October 2014|access-date=15 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712192034/http://www.msf.ca/en/article/ebola-new-spike-cases-guinea-pushes-conakry-treatment-centre-limit|archive-date=12 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On October 2, CDC hosted a Twitter chat to inform the public about Ebola.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Crook|first1=Brittani|last2=Glowacki|first2=Elizabeth M.|last3=Suran|first3=Melissa|last4=Harris|first4=Jenine K.|last5=Bernhardt|first5=Jay M.|date=2016-10-01|title=Content Analysis of a Live CDC Twitter Chat During the 2014 Ebola Outbreak|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2016.1224171|journal=Communication Research Reports|volume=33|issue=4|pages=349–355|doi=10.1080/08824096.2016.1224171|s2cid=151866497|issn=0882-4096}}</ref>

{{flagicon|France}} '''France''' On October 3, Health Minister Marisol Touraine announces that the nurse evacuated from Liberia had been cured and had left hospital. She had been treated with Avigan, which had been approved by Japan in March. The death toll in West Africa is more than 3,400.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20141004-french-nurse-cured-ebola-health-minister-msf-touraine/|title=France - French MSF nurse 'cured' of Ebola, health minister says|work=France 24|access-date=13 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004174917/http://www.france24.com/en/20141004-french-nurse-cured-ebola-health-minister-msf-touraine/|archive-date=4 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Germany}} '''Germany''' On October 3, a second patient was admitted to an isolation ward in Germany. The patient is a Ugandan doctor who was working in Sierra Leone for an Italian NGO, and is currently being treated in Frankfurt's University Hospital.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/health-ebola-germany-idUSL6N0RY11E20141003 |title=Ebola patient arrives in Germany from Sierra Leone -local officials |work=Reuters |date=4 October 2014 |access-date=4 October 2014}}</ref>

On the same date, Germany both opened a 48-bed isolation center in Kenema and sent medical supplies to Liberia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liberianewsagency.org/pagesnews.php?nid=2815 |title=GERLIB Clinic Sets Up Ebola Isolation Center |work=Liberia News Agency |publisher=liberianewsagency.org |access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On October 3, a fourth case was medically evacuated to the United States; the colleagues of the patient were voluntarily isolated upon return from Liberia. The patient, Ashoka Mukpo, was a reporter for an American news network.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://planetprinceton.com/2014/10/03/nbc-newss-dr-nancy-snyderman-of-princeton-to-be-quarantined-after-ebola-exposure/|title=NBC News's Dr. Nancy Snyderman of Princeton to Be Quarantined after Ebola Exposure|date=3 October 2014 |publisher=Planetprinceton.com|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Germany}} '''Germany''' On October 4, the Senegalese epidemiologist that was the first patient flown to and treated in Germany was released from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf after forty days of isolation.<ref name="berliner-zeitung.de"/>

{{flagicon|Norway}} '''Norway''' On October 6, MSF announced that one of their workers, a Norwegian national, had become infected in Sierra Leone and was to be transported to Norway for treatment as soon as possible.<ref>{{cite news|title=Norway will fly its first Ebola patient back from Sierra Leone|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heatlh-ebola-norway-idUSKCN0HV1IT20141006|work=Reuters|access-date=6 October 2014|date=6 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''' On 6 October María Teresa Romero Ramos, an auxiliary nurse who had cared for Manuel García Viejo at the Hospital Carlos III, tested positive for Ebola at the Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón, marking the first transmission of EVD outside of West Africa.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29514920|title=First transmission outside of West Africa.|work=BBC News|date=6 October 2014 |access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On October 7, Liberian Ambassador to the United States Jeremiah Sulunteh claimed Liberia may be "close to collapse" in a television interview.<ref name="BBC News Africa">{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29516663 | title=Ebola outbreak: Liberia 'close to collapse' - ambassador | publisher=BBC News Africa | work=Katty, Kay | date=7 October 2014 | access-date=8 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' On October 8 Thomas Eric Duncan, the first case of EVD in the U.S., dies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-ebola-patient-thomas-eric-duncan-died/story?id=26045360|title=Texas Ebola Patient Thomas Eric Duncan Has Died|work=ABC News|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On October 8, the WHO announced that EVD was present in fourteen of Liberia's fifteen counties.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/liberias-ebola-problem-far-worse-imagined-says-who|title=Liberia's Ebola problem far worse than imagined, says WHO|publisher=News.sciencemag.org|access-date=30 September 2014|date=2014-09-08}}</ref>


{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''' On October 10 María Teresa Romero Ramos's mixed breed dog, Excalibur, is
euthanized by regional court order despite public protests due to concerns that it may have been an animal reservoir of the Ebola virus.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/08/ebola-dog-excalibur-euthanized_n_5956026.html|title='Ebola Dog' Excalibur Euthanized|date=9 October 2014|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> On Twitter, the [[Hashtag|hashtag]] #SalvemosaExcalibur  (We'll Save Excalibur) was briefly the second-most popular hashtag worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news24.com/World/News/Spanish-Ebola-nurses-pet-dog-put-down-20141008|title=Spanish Ebola nurse's pet dog put down|work=News24|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-08}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Ivory Coast}} '''Ivory Coast''' On October 10, the Ivory Coast banned the sale of bush meat as part of a series of limitations designed to prevent EVD from spreading to the country. Bush meat has been generally accepted as one of the reservoirs of the virus and has been restricted temporarily in Nigeria as well.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-10/ebola-s-next-stop-may-be-ivory-coast-as-un-prepares-neighbors|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011020527/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-10/ebola-s-next-stop-may-be-ivory-coast-as-un-prepares-neighbors|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 11, 2014|title=Ebola's Next Stop May Be Ivory Coast as WHO Prepares Neighbors|publisher=Bloomberg News|date=10 October 2014|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' On October 12, the CDC announces that a caregiver for Thomas Eric Duncan had tested positive for EVD.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/cdc-test-confirms-dallas-caregiver-positive-ebola-n224191|title=CDC Test Confirms Dallas Caregiver Positive for Ebola|work=NBC News|date=12 October 2014 |access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> She is identified two days later as 29-year-old Vietnamese-American nurse Nina Pham. Pham was later moved to the [[Organization:National Institutes of Health|National Institutes of Health]] in Bethesda, Maryland.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/14/health/ebola-who-is-nina-pham/index.html?iid=article_sidebar|title=More than a nurse: Who is Ebola patient Nina Pham?|date=14 October 2014|work=CNN|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|France}} '''France''' On October 13, France pledges to build several treatment centers in Guinea while also announcing that flights from affected countries may be barred from arrival in France in the near future.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-france-idUSKCN0I224W20141013|title=France says it will build more Ebola treatment centers in Guinea|work=Reuters|access-date=17 October 2014|date=13 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On 14 October, 800 Sierra Leone peacekeepers due to relieve a contingent deployed in Somalia were placed under quarantine when one of the soldiers tested positive for Ebola.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Sierra-Leone-peacekeepers-quarantined-over-Ebola-20141014|title=Sierra Leone peacekeepers quarantined over Ebola|work=News24|access-date=21 November 2014|date=2014-10-14}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Germany}} '''Germany''' On October 14, the first patient in Germany dies from EVD,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2014-10/ebola-patient-in-leipzig-gestorben|title=Infektion: Ebola-Patient in Leipziger Klinik gestorben|date=14 October 2014|work=ZEIT ONLINE}}</ref> a 56-year-old Sudanese UN employee who had been the third medical evacuee to Germany, at St Georg Hospital in Leipzig.

{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' On October 14 anonymous nurses allege that there were no protocols in the treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan at  Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, that their protective gear was insufficient, and that hazardous waste was allowed to pile up.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-nurses-union-claims/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=Ebola: 5 things nurses say the Texas hospital got wrong|date=15 October 2014|work=CNN|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

Also on October 14, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced that Nina Pham's one-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel Bentley would be kept in isolation and monitored at Hensley Field.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/bentley-ebola-dog-dallas-nurse-nina-phams-pet-being-taken-care-dallas-officials-1705302|title=Bentley The Ebola Dog: Dallas Nurse Nina Pham's Pet Is Being Taken Care Of By Dallas Officials|work=International Business Times|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-15}}</ref>

Also on October 14, 100 members of the American military are sent to Liberia to aid efforts there -the total number of American troops in West Africa stands at 565.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/another-100-u-s-troops-arrive-liberia-fight-ebola-n225581|title=Another 100 U.S. Troops Arrive in Liberia to Fight Ebola|work=NBC News|date=14 October 2014 |access-date=14 October 2014}}</ref>
[[File:Emory University Hospital Front Entrance.jpg|thumb|110 px|Emory University Hospital]]
{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' On October 15 a second caregiver for Thomas Eric Duncan tests positive for EVD,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29628622|title=Second U.S. transmission in Dallas|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-15}}</ref> 29-year-old nurse Amber Vinson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/content.aspx?id=8589991239|title=Texas has had three confirmed cases of Ebola.|publisher=Dshs.state.tx.us|access-date=24 October 2014|archive-date=22 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022230448/https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/content.aspx?id=8589991239|url-status=dead}}</ref> The CDC seeks to track fellow airline passengers on a flight she took from Cleveland a day before being diagnosed (her trip was itself cleared by CDC personnel).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/15/ebola-stricken-nurse-flew-on-a-passenger-plane-a-day-before-being-diagnosed/|title=Health-care worker with Ebola flew on commercial flight a day before being diagnosed|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=24 October 2014|first=Mark|last=Berman|date=15 October 2014}}</ref> The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Vinson will be transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/dallas-ebola-patient-transferred-emory/story?id=26212955|title=Dallas Ebola Patient Being Transferred to Emory|publisher=ABC News|access-date=October 15, 2014|date=October 15, 2014}}</ref>

Also on October 15, concerns over Amber Vinson's presence on Frontier Airlines flights  1142 and 1143 prompts school closures (two in Solon, Ohio and three in Belton, Texas). Furthermore, two pilots and four air stewardesses are put on paid leave "out of an abundance of caution."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/16/after-concern-about-ebola-patients-flight-schools-close-in-two-cities/|title=Chain reaction: Concern about Ebola nurse's flight prompts school closings in two states|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=24 October 2014|first=Lindsey|last=Bever|date=16 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On October 15 the WHO announces that the death toll for EVD is 4,477, mostly in West Africa, and warns that the infection rate there could reach  5,000 to 10,000 new cases a week in two months if efforts are not stepped up.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29628622|title=Second U.S. transmission in Dallas.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-15}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On October 16, the Emergency Operations Center announced two Ebola cases in the Koinadugu district in the far north. This marks the arrival of cases in every district in the country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/10/16/3915569_new-district-in-sierra-leone-gets.html?rh=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141018212511/http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/10/16/3915569_new-district-in-sierra-leone-gets.html?rh=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 18, 2014|title=FREETOWN, Sierra Leone: Ebola comes to last safe district in Sierra Leone - Health - The Bellingham Herald|publisher=Bellinghamherald.com|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' On October 16, the fourth medically evacuated case in the US was discharged from Emory University Hospital after being administered serum from a British patient that had successfully completed treatment at a hospital in London.<ref name="WashingPost_2014"/>

Also on October 16, a Maine elementary school teacher who had attended a conference in Dallas is put on 21-day paid leave "out of an abundance of caution." Some 135 people are being monitored in Dallas to some degree.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/17/fearing-ebola-strong-elementary-teacher-on-leave-after-traveling-to-dallas/|title=Maine school board puts teacher on leave after she traveled to Dallas|work=The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-17}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''' Also on October 16,  Air France flight 1300 was isolated at Barajas International Airport in Madrid after a Nigerian passenger fell ill.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/169618-ebola-air-france-flight-from-lagos-isolated-in-spain-over-sick-nigerian-passenger.html|title=air-france-flight-from-lagos-isolated-in-spain-over-sick-nigerian-passenger.html|work=Premium Times Nigeria|access-date=21 November 2014|date=2014-10-16}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Senegal}} '''Senegal''' On October 17, the EVD outbreak in Senegal is declared over after no new cases were reported in the country for 42 days.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-senegal-ebola-over-20141017-story.html|title=WHO declares Ebola over in Senegal|date=17 October 2014|work={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}}|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Belize}} '''Belize''' On 17 October refused landing of a cruise ship containing a Texas worker who handled blood samples of a now deceased Ebola patient, indicating "This decision was made out of preponderance of caution for the welfare of the citizens and residents of Belize."  It also banned travel from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria.<ref>{{cite news|title=Amid Ebola fears, cruise ship quarantines worker, airline contacts travelers|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/health/us-ebola/index.html|access-date=18 September 2014 | work=CNN}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' Also on October 17, a leaked WHO draft document admits systemic mistakes in the handling the early stages of the EVD epidemic in West Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/botched-response-ebola-outbreak-26268294|title=UN: We Botched Response to the Ebola Outbreak|work=ABC News|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

Also on October 17, the WHO officially commended Macky Sall, Awa Marie Coll-Seck, the CDC, and MSF for their work in raising public awareness of Ebola in Senegal as well as quickly and effectively preventing the spread of EVD in the country. Senegal was announced 'Ebola-free' on the same day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/senegal-ends-ebola/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017214059/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/senegal-ends-ebola/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 17, 2014|title=WHO congratulates Senegal on ending Ebola transmission|date=17 October 2014|access-date=20 October 2014}}</ref>


{{flagicon|USA}} '''United States''' Also on October 17, President [[Biography:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]] names Ron Klain as his point man on the Ebola epidemic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/obama-weighs-ebola-czar-texas-toughens-monitoring-26264545|title=Obama Names Ebola 'Czar' as Precautions Expand|work=ABC News|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ron-klain-chief-of-staff-to-2-vice-presidents-is-named-ebola-czar.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumMediumMedia&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news|title=Before Ebola New Czar Handles Political Crisis|newspaper={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=24 October 2014|date=17 October 2014}}</ref>

Also on October 17, several school closures in Ohio and Texas (connected with the two flights taken by Amber Vinson) by school district officials are declared by public health officials to be an overreaction. The CDC and Frontier Airlines widen their search, however, to 800 people who afterwards had boarded the same airliner  (an Airbus A320, plane number N220FR) before it was taken out of service. The Airbus had flown to Atlanta, Georgia and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and back to Cleveland, Ohio.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

Also on October 17, a crowd of parents in Hazelhurst, Mississippi pull their children from their junior high school after learning that its principal had attended a family funeral in Zambia -in southern Africa, 3,000 miles away from the epidemic in West Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/17/fearing-ebola-strong-elementary-teacher-on-leave-after-traveling-to-dallas|title=Funeral in Zambia prompts panic in Mississippi.|work=The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-17}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Egypt}} '''Egypt''' On October 18 Egypt delivered three tons of medical equipment to Guinea, consisting of medicine and medical equipment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbulletin.net/todays-news/146527/egypt-sends-medical-aid-to-ebola-hit-guinea|title=Egypt sends medical aid to Ebola-hit Guinea - Africa - Worldbulletin News|work=World Bulletin|access-date=18 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|DRC}} '''Democratic Republic of the Congo''' On October 18, the DRC stated it would train over 1,000 Congolese soldiers in [[Place:Kinshasa|Kinshasa]] to support the West African countries facing the EVD epidemic there. While facing a concurrent outbreak of its own, the DRC alluded to 'African solidarity' as a reason for its contribution.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-congodemocratic-idUSKCN0I70K720141018|title=Congo lends a hand to fight Ebola, urges African solidarity|work=Reuters|access-date=18 October 2014|date=18 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Portugal}} '''Portugal''' On October 18, Portugal announced it would establish a medical base in [[Place:Bissau|Bissau]], Guinea-Bissau to protect Guinea-Bissau from EVD in the chance that it would enter the country via neighboring Guinea.<ref name="The Portugal News Online">{{cite news|url=http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/portugal-to-set-up-rear-guard-ebola-base-in-bissau/33052|title=Portugal to set up rear-guard Ebola base in Bissau|publisher=The Portugal News Online|date=23 October 2014|access-date=24 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024091114/http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/portugal-to-set-up-rear-guard-ebola-base-in-bissau/33052|archive-date=24 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Guinea-Bissau}} '''Guinea-Bissau''' On October 18 Guinea-Bissau began works on an Ebola treatment center in the Hospital Simão Mendes, which is the primary medical center in the capital, Bissau. The country is bordered by Guinea and Senegal, two nations that had reported cases of EVD during the course of the outbreak.<ref name="The Portugal News Online"/>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN'''  On October 19 Tony Banbury, managing director of the recently established UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), states regarding the logistics of his operation that "I need everything. I need it everywhere. And I need it super-fast."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29654974|title=UNMEER quotation.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-17|last1=Doyle|first1=Mark}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''' Also on October 19 Teresa Romero, the nurse who was the first person to be infected outside of West Africa, tests negative for Ebola in an initial test. A second test is required for confirmation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29683616|title=Teresa Romero tests negative. |newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-20 }}</ref>

{{flagicon|Nigeria}} '''Nigeria''' On October 20, the WHO declared Nigeria to be Ebola-free after over six weeks without new reported cases. The final case and death count stands at 8 deaths and 20 cases.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/20/nigeria-to-be-declared-ebola-free/|title=Nigeria declared Ebola-free after 8 deaths|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=24 October 2014|first=Lindsey|last=Bever|date=20 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Ghana}} '''Ghana''' On October 20, Ghanaian President  John Mahama announces that aid is beginning to arrive at the three worst-hit countries (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29699174|title=Worst-hit African Nations Get Key Supplies|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-21}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Norway}} '''Norway''' On October 21, the Norwegian national being treated in [[Place:Oslo|Oslo]] after being medically evacuated from Sierra Leone was released from the Oslo University Hospital. The woman, Silje Lehne Michalsen, responded to her discharge by stating: "For three months I saw the total absence of an international response. For three months I became more and more worried and frustrated."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.yahoo.com/norwegian-ebola-patient-cured-aid-group-150617578.html | title=Norwegian Ebola Patient Cured | work=Yahoo News | date=20 October 2014 | access-date=22 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''UN''' On October 21 Dr. Marie Paule Kieny of the WHO announces in Geneva that a serum from the blood of recovered EVD patients could be available within weeks in Liberia, and furthermore that target date for a vaccine was January 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health-29707393|title=Ebola serum for Africa patients within weeks, says WHO|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-21|last1=Roberts|first1=Michelle}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On October 21 riots broke out in the Kono district to prevent the quarantine of a 90-year-old woman suspected of having EVD; the youths are reportedly angry that there are no treatment centers in the diamond-rich Kono district. A daytime curfew is imposed.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health-29707393|title=Kono riots.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-21|last1=Roberts|first1=Michelle}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' On October 22, NBC freelance cameraman and medical evacuee Ashoka Mukpo is released from Nebraska Medical Center free of the Ebola virus, the second patient so treated there. Mukpo is the fifth medically evacuated case in the United States thus far.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/ashoka-mukpo-ebola-free_n_6024766.html|title=Nebraska Hospital Says NBC Freelance Cameraman Ashoka Mukpo Is Free Of Ebola|date=21 October 2014|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

Furthermore, DHS rules go into effect which route 100% of travellers from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to one of five international airports for enhanced screening: JFK, Newark, Dulles,  Hartsfield-Jackson, or O'Hare. (These airports had previously served 94% of such passengers arriving in the U.S.)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29721853|title=DHS Ebola Airports.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-22}}</ref>

In addition, the CDC announced a plan to monitor for 21 days (the Ebola incubation period) all travelers arriving in the US from Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone, beginning on October 27. They will have to report body temperatures and symptoms daily to local and state health departments.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/health/us-to-monitor-travelers-from-ebola-hit-nations-for-21-days.html|title=US to Monitor Travelers from Ebola Hit Nations for 21 Days|newspaper={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=24 October 2014|first1=Donald G.|last1=McNeil Jr|first2=Michael D.|last2=Shear|date=22 October 2014}}</ref>

And finally, Nina Pham's dog, Bentley, tests negative for Ebola.<ref name=khou.comref>{{cite news|author1=Khou.com staff|title=Nina Pham's dog tests negative for Ebola|url=http://www.khou.com/story/life/2014/10/22/nina-phams-dog-tests-negative-for-ebola/17719347/|access-date=27 October 2014|work=Khou.com|date=22 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027081115/http://www.khou.com/story/life/2014/10/22/nina-phams-dog-tests-negative-for-ebola/17719347/|archive-date=27 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''' Also on October 22 Teresa Romero tests negative for Ebola in a second round of tests.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29721853|title=Teresa Romero Ebola-free.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-22}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Cuba}} '''Cuba''' Also on October 22 Cuba sends a medical team to Liberia.<ref name="Observer_2014">{{cite news|title=Cuba sends 83 more doctors, nurses to fight Ebola in Africa|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Cuba-sends-83-more-doctors--nurses-to-fight-Ebola-in-Africa|access-date=24 October 2014|newspaper=Jamaica Observer|date=22 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024084848/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Cuba-sends-83-more-doctors--nurses-to-fight-Ebola-in-Africa|archive-date=24 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Mali}} '''Mali''' On October 23 the first case is confirmed in Mali, a two-year-old girl who had recently visited Guinea.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29750723|title=October 23rd: First case in Mali.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 October 2014|date=2014-10-24}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' Also on October 23 {{wipe|New York City}} physician Craig Spencer was placed in isolation in Bellevue Hospital after experiencing symptoms of EVD. He subsequently tests positive for the Ebola virus.  Spencer had returned recently from Guinea, where he had been working with Ebola patients as part of Doctors Without Borders. The diagnosis was unrelated to the cases of Ebola virus disease in Texas.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/new-york-doctor-just-back-africa-has-ebola-n232561 | title=New York Doctor Just Back From Africa Has Ebola | work=NBC News | date=23 October 2014 | access-date=23 October 2014}}</ref> Spencer completed several activities before arriving at the hospital, including riding the subway, visiting a bowling alley and entering another resident's car via [[Company:Uber|Uber]].<ref name="Sanchez_Oct2014">{{cite news|last1=Sanchez| first1=Ray|last2=Prokupecz|first2=Shimon|title=N.Y. doctor positive for Ebola had no symptoms until Thursday, officials say| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/23/health/new-york-possible-ebola-case/index.html | work=CNN | date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Mali}} '''Mali''' On October 24 Mali reported its first death; the two-year girl who was the first confirmed case in the country died the day after her case was reported.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ebola Outbreak 2014|url=http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2014/10/24/2-year-old-girl-who-was-malis-1st-ebola-case-has/|website=Breaking News|publisher=NBC News Digital Network|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Two-year-old girl who was Mali's first Ebola case has died: health official|url=https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/525731837667471360|access-date=24 October 2014|work=Reuters Top News|publisher=@Reuters|date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' Also on October 24 the two Dallas nurses who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan and contracted EVD,  Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, are declared Ebola free; the former meets President Obama in the Oval Office upon release from hospital.<ref name="twonurses_2014">{{cite news|title=Two US Ebola nurses free of virus|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29749283|access-date=25 October 2014|work=BBC News|date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

Also on the 24th, New York and New Jersey establish mandatory quarantine protocols for those health care workers who have treated EVD patients who arrive from West Africa at their international airports.<ref name=newrepublicoct2014>{{cite magazine|last1=Cohn|first1=Jonathan|title=An Ebola Quarantine for New York|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/119997/cuomo-christie-announce-quarantine-ebola-health-workers-ny-nj |access-date=27 October 2014|magazine=New Republic|date=25 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=nytimesnegative>{{cite news|last1=Santora|first1=Marc|title=First Patient Quarantined Under Strict New Policy Tests Negative for Ebola|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/nyregion/new-york-ebola-case-craig-spencer.html|access-date=27 October 2014|work=The New York Times|date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|North Korea}} '''North Korea''' Also on October 24, North Korea bars all foreign tourists.<ref name=Sang-Hun>{{cite news|last1=Sang-Hun|first1=Choe|title=Ebola Prompts North Korea to Bar Tourists|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/world/asia/north-korea-to-bar-foreign-tourists-over-ebola-fears.html|access-date=27 October 2014|work=The New York Times|date=23 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''United Nations''' On October 25 the WHO announces that the Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000 cases worldwide; of the   4,922 deaths, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea account for all but ten.<ref name=passing10000cases>{{cite news|title=Ebola outbreak: Cases pass 10,000, WHO reports|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29769782|access-date=27 October 2014|work=BBC News Africa|date=25 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=ebolaresponsewho>{{cite web|title=Ebola response roadmap situation report update|url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137185/1/roadmapupdate25Oct14_eng.pdf?ua=1%2520who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137185/1/roadmapupdate25Oct14_eng.pdf%3fua=1|publisher=World Health Organization|access-date=27 October 2014|date=25 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UK}} '''United Kingdom''' Also on October 25, a paper published in ''The Lancet''<ref>{{cite news|title=Dynamics and control of Ebola virus transmission in Montserrado, Liberia: a mathematical modelling analysis|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancetid/article/PIIS1473-3099%2814%2970995-8/abstract|access-date=25 October 2014|work=The Lancet|date=24 October 2014}}</ref> forecasts that the scale of the current international response is too slow to prevent numerous further deaths in West Africa.<ref>{{cite news|title=Response to Ebola epidemic in west Africa too slow, say scientists|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/ebola-epidemic-west-africa-lancet-infectious-diseases-liberia|access-date=25 October 2014|work=The Guardian|date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' Also on October 25, nurse Kaci Hickox, who had treated EVD patients in Sierra Leone, expresses frustration at her quarantine after her arrival at Newark International Airport the previous day under a state policy which exceeds the recommendations of the CDC.<ref name="hartocollis_2014">{{cite news|last1=Hartocollis|first1=Anemona|last2=Fitzsimmons|first2=Emma G.|title=Tested Negative for Ebola, Nurse Criticizes Her Quarantine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/nyregion/nurse-in-newark-tests-negative-for-ebola.html|access-date=27 October 2014|work=The New York Times|date=25 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Mauritania}} '''Mauritania''' Also on October 25, Mauritania closes its border with Mali.<ref name="Diarra_2014">{{cite news|last1=Diarra|first1=Adama|last2=Diagana|first2=Kissima|title=Mauritania closes border with Mali over Ebola fears|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-mali-idUSKCN0IE0GM20141025|access-date=27 October 2014|work=Reuters|date=25 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' On October 26, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signs an order mandating a 21-day quarantine for those who have had direct contact with EVD patients in Liberia, Guinea, or Sierra Leone.<ref name="carlosebola_2014">{{cite news|last1=Sadovi|first1=Carlos|title=Illinois orders mandatory Ebola quarantine for high-risk travelers|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-illinois-ebola-quarantine-20141025-story.html|access-date=27 October 2014|work=Chicago Tribune|date=26 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Japan}} '''Japan''' On October 27, a middle aged Canadian journalist was accosted at Tokyo International Airport upon returning from a two-month visit to Liberia and stating he had felt feverish. He was then handed to the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare and was ordered to be quarantined at the National Medical Research Center in Shinjuku, [[Place:Tokyo|Tokyo]]. While he was the first suspected EVD case in Asia, tests on the following day proved him negative for EVD.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20141027/k10015739231000.html|script-title=ja:リベリア滞在の男性発熱 エボラウイルス検査へ|publisher=NHK News|language=ja|date=2014-10-27|access-date=2014-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027111022/http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20141027/k10015739231000.html|archive-date=2014-10-27|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=First suspected Ebola case in Japan: Man arriving at Haneda Airport from west Africa tested for virus|url=http://www.japantrends.com/first-suspected-ebola-case-in-japan-man-arriving-at-haneda-airport-from-west-africa-tested-for-virus/|newspaper=The Japan Times|date=2014-10-28|access-date=2014-10-30}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Australia}} '''Australia''' Also on October 27, Australia instigates visa restrictions on travellers from the three countries most affected by the Ebola epidemic.<ref name=australiaCNN>{{cite news|last1=McKirdy|first1=Euan|title=Australia instigates Ebola-prompted ban on travel from West Africa|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/australia-immigration-policy-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|access-date=1 November 2014|work=CNN News|date=28 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=sierraleonepissed>{{cite news|title=Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone angry at Australia visa ban|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29809863|access-date=1 November 2014|work=BBC News|date=28 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' On October 28 nurse Kaci Hickox is permitted to undergo quarantine at her home in Maine and leaves her hospital tent in New Jersey.<ref name="USAgainst_2014">{{cite news|title=Ebola outbreak: US advises against quarantine|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29792776|access-date=1 November 2014|work=BBC News|date=28 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''United Nations''' On October 29 the WHO reports that the rate of infections in Liberia has slowed, due in part in changes in cultural mortuary practices. It warns, however, that the crisis is far from over.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ebola crisis: Infections 'slowing in Liberia'|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29822303|work=BBC News|access-date=1 November 2014}}</ref> The WHO also reports, in its tenth Ebola Roadmap Situation Report, that as of October 27, there are 13,703 EVD cases with 4,920 deaths; that all districts in Liberia and Sierra Leone are affected; and that UNMEER will have been in operation (as of October 30) for thirty days.<ref name=errs29oct>{{cite web|title=Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Report (29 October 2014)|url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137376/1/roadmapsitrep_29Oct2014_eng.pdf?ua=1%20who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137376/1/roadmapsitrep_29Oct2014_eng|publisher=World Health Organization|access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' Also on October 29, a Connecticut school is sued for not allowing a seven-year-old student who had attended a wedding in Ebola-free Nigeria with her father to attend until November 3 due to "concerns" expressed by other parents and by teachers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Opayemi family sues Connecticut school after daughter banned|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29820594|access-date=1 November 2014|work=BBC News|date=29 October 2014}}</ref>

Also on October 29, Louisiana state health officials asked those who had treated EVD patients to ''not'' attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Enserink|first1=Martin|title=Been to an Ebola-affected country? Stay away from tropical medicine meeting, Louisiana says|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/been-ebola-affected-country-stay-away-tropical-medicine-meeting-louisiana-says|access-date=4 November 2014|work=Sciencemag.org|date=29 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|North Korea}} '''North Korea''' On October 30 North Korea imposes a mandatory 21-day quarantine on all foreign nationals arriving from abroad; furthermore, internal travel and travel abroad are even more tightly restricted.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fifield|first1=Anna|title=North Korea's reaction to Ebola makes fears of a zombie apocalypse look rational|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/31/north-koreas-reaction-to-ebola-makes-fears-of-a-zombie-apocalypse-look-rational|access-date=4 November 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=31 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' Also on October 30, Science and Science Translational Medicine offer their articles on the Ebola epidemic for free for both the public and for researchers given that it is "unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread."<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ebola Epidemic|url=https://www.science.org/action/doSearch?AllField=Ebola|publisher=Sciencemag.org|access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|US}} '''United States''' On October 31 Maine Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere ruled that nurse Kaci Hickox (who had previously gone on a defiant bicycle ride, breaking her quarantine) must continue to undergo mandatory monitoring by public health officials, but that her movements were not to be restricted inasmuch as she was [[Medicine:Asymptomatic|asymptomatic]]. "The court is fully aware that people are acting out of fear and that this fear is not entirely rational,' the judge noted.<ref>{{cite news|author1=The Associated Press|title=Ebola outbreak: Judge rejects Maine bid to quarantine nurse Kaci Hickox|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-outbreak-judge-rejects-maine-bid-to-quarantine-nurse-kaci-hickox-1.2819529|access-date=4 November 2014|work=CBC News|date=31 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Bidgood|first1=Jess|last2=Phillips|first2=Dave|title=Judge in Maine Eases Restrictions on Nurse|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/us/ebola-maine-nurse-kaci-hickox.html|access-date=4 November 2014|work=The New York Times|date=31 October 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} '''United Nations''' By the end of October, WHO statistics showed 13,540 cases and 4,941 deaths overall.<ref name=WHO20141031>{{cite web |url= http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137424/1/roadmapsitrep_31Oct2014_eng.pdf?ua=1 |title=EBOLA RESPONSE ROADMAP SITUATION REPORT UPDATE |publisher=World Health organization|date=31 October 2014 |access-date =1 November 2014}}</ref>

===November 2014===
{{flagicon|France}} '''France''' On November 1, the second medically evacuated case was flown out of Sierra Leone to be treated in France. The patient, a United Nations employee, is not a French citizen.<ref>{{cite news|title=U.N. Employee With Ebola Evacuated to France for Treatment|url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/u-n-employee-with-ebola-evacuated-to-france-for-treatment-1414891739|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|access-date=3 November 2014|first=Inti|last=Landauro|date=2 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|UN}} '''United Nations''' On November 5 UNMEER reports that cases are surging in Sierra Leone due to the lack of treatment centers. "Two-thirds of the new cases recorded in the past three weeks have been in Sierra Leone."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/ebola-surging-sierra-leone-amid-lack-treatment-centers-125553363.html|title= Ebola surging in Sierra Leone amid lack of treatment centers: U.N|date=6 November 2014|work=Yahoo News|access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' Also on November 5 the White House requests just over $6 billion in Ebola funding from Congress.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/05/white-house-to-ask-for-more-than-6-billion-in-ebola-funding-omb-says/|title=/white-house-to-ask-for-more-than-6-billion-in-ebola-funding-omb-says/|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=21 November 2014|first=Juliet|last=Eilperin|date=5 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|France}} '''France''' On November 6 France announces the screening of airline passengers arriving from Guinea.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20141016-ebola-france-airport-screening-eu-health/|title=ebola-france-airport-screening-eu-health/|work=France 24|access-date=21 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120150318/http://www.france24.com/en/20141016-ebola-france-airport-screening-eu-health/|archive-date=20 November 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On November 7 a conference is held at the White House with three leading robotics universities ([[Organization:Worcester Polytechnic Institute|Worcester Polytechnic Institute]], Texas A&M, and the [[Organization:University of California, Berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]]) to explore the feasibility of re-purposing non-autonomous robots to further separate health care providers from possible contact with the Ebola virus. Possible roles include the removal of [[Social:Personal protective equipment|PPE]], clinical telepresence, and the burial of the contagious dead.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29942392|title=Robotics and Ebola.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=21 November 2014|date=2014-11-07|last1=Copestake|first1=Jen}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Switzerland}} '''Médecins Sans Frontières''' Also on November 7,  Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announces a significant decline, for reasons which are not fully understood, in Liberian cases.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29957338|title=Decline in Liberian cases.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=21 November 2014|date=2014-11-07}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On November 10 Dr. Spencer is declared virus-free by the New York City Health Department; he is to be released from Bellevue Hospital the next day.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29998398|title=Dr. Spencer is declared virus-free.|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=21 November 2014|date=2014-11-11}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On November 11 Dr. Spencer is released from Bellevue Hospital.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-doctor-craig-spencer-heads-home-ebola-free/|title=Dr. Craig Spencer beats Ebola, released from Bellevue Hospital|date=11 November 2014|access-date=21 November 2014|work=CBS News}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Mali}} '''Mali''' On November 12, two more cases of Ebola are confirmed, both of whom died; these cases are unrelated to the case of the 2-year-old who died late October. The source of this outbreak is a Guinean [[Religion:Imam|imam]] who was treated at the Pasteur clinic in [[Place:Bamako|Bamako]] (the capital and largest city in Mali); the second case in this outbreak was a nurse at the clinic.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30015329|title=BBC News - Ebola crisis: Mali confirms second death|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=21 November 2014|date=2014-11-12}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On November 13, Liberia ends its [[Social:State of emergency|state of emergency]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/liberia-ends-ebola-state-emergency-134106961.html?pt=tAD4SCT8P7|title=/liberia-ends-ebola-state-emergency|date=13 November 2014|work=Yahoo News|access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On November 15 Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon working in Sierra Leone, is medically evacuated to the Nebraska Medical Center, the third EVD case to be treated there and the most critical.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/us/martin-salia-taken-to-nebraska-medical-center-for-ebola-treatment.html|title=Martin Salia, Surgeon With Ebola, Arrives in Nebraska From Sierra Leone |work=The New York Times|access-date=18 February 2015|date=15 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Mali}} '''Mali''' Also on November 15 Mali has identified and is monitoring 256 contacts (out of as many of 343) of its second batch of EVD cases.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-mali-idUSKCN0IY19A20141114|title=~343 Malian contacts.|work=Reuters|access-date=21 November 2014|date=14 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On November 17 Dr. Martin Salia dies at the Nebraska Medical Center.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-stricken-surgeon-dr-martin-salia-dies-nebraska/story?id=26964778|title=/ebola-stricken-surgeon-dr-martin-salia-dies-nebraska/story?id=26964778|author=ABC News|work=ABC News|access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Germany}} '''Germany''' On November 22, Germany sends 400 specially adapted motorbikes to remote West Africa regions. The bikes are to be used for sample transport in areas that do not have a local testing laboratory.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Bikes-for-Ebola-20141122|title=Bikes for Ebola|work=News24|date=2014-11-22}}</ref>

===December 2014===
{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' In early December, Sierra Leone falls behind in efforts to remove and bury the dead, with some workers dumping bodies in the streets to protest not being paid. Bodies are buried without being tested, and less than one in five dead may end up being reported to the WHO as an Ebola casualty.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ebola diary: 'There are reports of people disappearing into the forest to die' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/dec/09/-sp-ebola-reports-of-people-disappearing-forest-die|newspaper={{wipe|The Guardian}}|date=9 December 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On December 10, an American nurse exposed to Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone will be admitted to the National Institutes of Health Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center for observation and to enroll in a clinical protocol on Thursday, December 4.<ref>{{cite news|title=American nurse exposed to Ebola to be admitted to NIH center |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/health-ebola-usa-nurse-idUSL1N0TV19D20141211|work={{wipe|Reuters}}|date=11 December 2014|first=Sharon|last=Begley}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' Also on December 10, {{wipe|Time (magazine)}} magazine names ''The Ebola Fighters'' its Person of the Year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-ebola-fighters-choice/|title=Why Ebola Fighters Are TIME's Person of the Year 2014|work=TIME.com | date=10 December 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} '''Sierra Leone''' On December 12, it is announced that public Christmas and New Year's celebrations are banned. 1,319 new infections have been recorded in the last three weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enca.com/africa/sierra-leone-cancels-christmas-ebola-crisis-deepens|title=Sierra Leone cancels Christmas due to Ebola|author=eNCA}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Guinea-Bissau}} '''Guinea-Bissau''' On December 12, shortly after reopening its border (closed since August) with Guinea, a man with a fever was apprehended and quarantined after evading a checkpoint, along with eight other travelers he had joined.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ebola: a suspect Guinean in Guinea-Bissau after the reopening of the border |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.visionguinee.info%2F2014%2F12%2F12%2Febola-un-guineen-suspect-en-guinee-bissau-apres-la-reouverture-des-frontieres%2F&edit-text=&act=url|publisher=Visionguinee.info|date=12 December 2014}}</ref> (As of eleven days later, on December 23, his name, location and condition remain unknown.)

{{flagicon|United Nations}} On December 17, confirmed cases top 19,000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-17-december-2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204021127/http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-17-december-2014|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 17 December 2014 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} On December 22, confirmed deaths exceeded 7,500.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-24-december-2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204020050/http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-24-december-2014|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 24 December 2014 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Philippines}} '''Philippines''' On December 23, two returning OFWs from West Africa evaded quarantine requirements. Taking ill, they were rejected at one hospital and sent to another.<ref>{{cite news |title=2 OFWs skip 21-day quarantine in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone |url=https://filipinotimes.ae/news/2014/12/23/2-ofws-skip-21-day-quarantine-in-ebola-hit-s-leone/ |work=The Filipino Times |date=13 December 2014 |access-date=22 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040822/https://filipinotimes.ae/news/2014/12/23/2-ofws-skip-21-day-quarantine-in-ebola-hit-s-leone/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  (As of a week later, on December 29, their names, locations and condition remain unknown.)

{{flagicon|United States}} '''United States''' On December 24, 2014, a CDC technician in Atlanta was potentially exposed to Ebola due to a laboratory error, and has been placed into quarantine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-technician-may-have-been-exposed-to-ebola-due-to-lab-error-ny-times/ar-BBhc9EU|title=CDC technician may have been exposed to Ebola due to lab error: NY Times|website=[[Software:MSN|MSN]] |access-date=2014-12-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226024148/http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-technician-may-have-been-exposed-to-ebola-due-to-lab-error-ny-times/ar-BBhc9EU|archive-date=2014-12-26|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-worker-possibly-exposed-to-ebola-in-mishap-shows-no-signs-of-disease-us-official/ar-BBhihp8|title=CDC worker possibly exposed to Ebola in mishap shows no signs of disease: U.S. official|website=[[Software:MSN|MSN]] |access-date=2014-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229000757/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-worker-possibly-exposed-to-ebola-in-mishap-shows-no-signs-of-disease-us-official/ar-BBhihp8|archive-date=2014-12-29|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''United Kingdom''' On 29 December, Pauline Cafferkey, a healthcare worker returning from West Africa to Scotland, was diagnosed with Ebola. She was taken to a specialist treatment centre in London the next day.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow hospital |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30628349 |publisher=BBC|date=29 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30629397|title=Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey transferred to London unit|work=BBC News|date=30 December 2014}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} On December 29, confirmed cases exceeded 20,000 and confirmed deaths exceeded 7,800.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-31-december-2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204020547/http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-31-december-2014|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 31 December 2014 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Iraq}} '''Iraq''' On December 31, unnamed health officials in Mosul hospital allegedly maintained that Ebola had stricken "Da'ish gunmen" ([[Religion:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIS]] jihad fighters) of African origin. The reports are not independently confirmed.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.iraqtradelinknews.com/2014/12/first-ebola-cases-in-mosul.html|title=First Ebola cases in Mosul|publisher=Iraq TradeLink News Agency|date=31 December 2014}}</ref>

===January 2015===
[[File:Centre-medical-de-l'institute-pasteur.jpg|thumb|Institut Pasteur]]
{{flagicon|Iraq}}{{flagicon|United Nations}} On January 4, [[Religion:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIS]] propaganda claimed several deaths due to Ebola in [[Place:Mosul|Mosul]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/04012015|title=ISIS cracks down on five confirmed Ebola cases among fighters: o|work=Rudaw|access-date=18 February 2015}}</ref> The next day, the Ministry of Health of Iraq and WHO officials debunked the report as untrue.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-iraq-idUSKBN0KF16Y20150106|title=WHO says reports of suspected Ebola cases in Iraq are untrue|work=Reuters|access-date=18 February 2015|first=Kate|last=Kelland|date=6 January 2015}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} On January 8, confirmed cases reach 21,000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-14-january-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204020819/http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-14-january-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 14 January 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Mali}} '''Mali''' On January 18, Mali is officially Ebola-free.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-21-january-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201050920/http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/status-outbreak/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-21-january-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 21 January 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Guinea}} On January 21, '''Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia''' all reported the lowest weekly infection rates since August 2014. Guinea had re-opened its schools and universities.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/01/21/ebola-west-africa-outbreak/22100563/|title=Is this the beginning of the end for the Ebola outbreak?|author=Erin Conway-Smith, GlobalPost|date=21 January 2015|work=USA TODAY|access-date=18 February 2015}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} On January 22, '''Sierra Leone''' has cancelled all internal quarantines citing a sharp drop of the Ebola transmission.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-leone-idUSKBN0KV2Q620150122|title=Sierra Leone lifts Ebola quarantine measures amid progress|work=Reuters|access-date=18 February 2015|date=22 January 2015}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} On January 24, '''Liberia''' has reported just 5 confirmed and 21 suspected Ebola cases across the country, indicating a likely termination of the virus transmission.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/just-five-ebola-cases-left-liberia-govt-103515357.html|title=Just five Ebola cases left in Liberia|date=24 January 2015|work=Yahoo News|access-date=18 February 2015}}</ref>


{{flagicon|France}}{{flagicon|Guinea}} On January 30, in '''France''' Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai from the [[Organization:Pasteur Institute|Pasteur Institute]] has reported several asymptomatic Ebola cases, indicating a possible mutation which may enable transmission by carriers without outward signs of the disease.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://time.com/3687240/ebola-disease-health-vaccine-guinea/|title=Ebola Virus has Mutated, Scientists Say|author=Kevin McSpadden|work=TIME.com|access-date=18 February 2015|date=29 January 2015}}</ref>

===February–November 2015===
{{flagicon|United Nations}} On February 3, confirmed cases topped 22,500 and deaths reached 9,000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/ebola-situation-report/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-4-february-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208025020/http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/ebola-situation-report/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-4-february-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 8, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 4 February 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} On February 16, confirmed cases exceeded 23,000 and deaths were over 9,300.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/ebola-situation-report/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-18-february-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219195249/http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/ebola-situation-report/situation-reports/ebola-situation-report-18-february-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 19, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 18 February 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>


{{flagicon|Liberia}} On March 5, '''Liberia''' releases its last confirmed case.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-4-march-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306152827/http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-4-march-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 6, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 4 March 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} On March 11, cases topped 24,300 while deaths surpassed 10,000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-11-march-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150313142924/http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-11-march-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 13, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 11 March 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} On March 20, '''Liberia''' records its first case of Ebola in more than two weeks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-25-march-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326022734/http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-25-march-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 26, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 25 March 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}} On April 1, cases exceeded 25,000 while deaths neared 10,500.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-1-april-2015-0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402045447/http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-1-april-2015-0|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 2, 2015|title=Ebola Situation Report - 1 April 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|United Nations}}{{flagicon|Guinea}}{{flagicon|Liberia}}{{flagicon|Sierra Leone}} On May 1, cases were over 26,300 while deaths reached 10,900. The outbreak is nearly over in '''Liberia''' (with no new cases in weeks), is averaging ten cases per week in '''Sierra Leone''', and is still fully out of control in '''Guinea''' with several score new cases per week.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-6-may-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629235844/http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-6-may-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2016|title=Ebola Situation Report - 6 May 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>

{{flagicon|Liberia}} '''Liberia''' On May 9, Liberia is officially Ebola-free.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-13-may-2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630002320/http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-13-may-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 30, 2016|title=Ebola Situation Report - 13 May 2015 {{!}} Ebola|website=apps.who.int|access-date=2016-06-18}}</ref>


===January 2016===
On January 14, West Africa was declared '''''Ebola-free''''', marking the official end of the epidemic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/chief-west-africa-cusp-declared-ebola-free-36275538|title=Health Index|website=ABC News|access-date=3 November 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
* West African Ebola virus epidemic timeline of reported cases and deaths

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite journal|last1=Pacheco|first1=Daniela Alexandra de Meneses Rocha|last2=Rodrigues|first2=Acácio Agostinho Gonçalves|last3=Silva|first3=Carmen Maria Lisboa da|title=Ebola virus – from neglected threat to global emergency state|journal=Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira|date=October 2016|volume=62|issue=5|pages=458–467|doi=10.1590/1806-9282.62.05.458|pmid=27656857|doi-access=free}}

==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news.html|publisher=World Health Organization (WHO)|title=Outbreak Updates|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424072105/http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news.html|archive-date=2015-04-24}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/|publisher=US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)|title=Outbreak Updates|date=2019-06-24}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/emergencies/crisis/ebola/en/|title=Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Updates|publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)|access-date=2014-11-23|archive-date=2015-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419131300/http://www.fao.org/emergencies/crisis/ebola/en/|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web|url=http://healthmap.org/ebola/|title=2014 Ebola Outbreak - detail timeline and projection|publisher=healthmap.org}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/ebola_marburg_fevers/Pages/ebola-outbreak-west-africa.aspx|publisher=European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)|title=Ebola outbreak in West Africa|date=27 August 2010 }}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.msf.org.uk/ebola#Ebolatimeline|title=Ebola outbreak: timeline|publisher=Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders|date=2016-09-13}}

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