MMWR Vol. 63 / Early Release ▲ Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak

MMWR Vol. 63 / Early Release

MMWR Early Release Vol. 63, Early Release September 30, 2014

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Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak — West Africa, September 2014 Incident Management System Ebola Epidemiology Team, CDC; Ministries of Health of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, and Senegal; Viral Special Pathogens Branch, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC. MMWR 2014;63(Early Release):1-2 Updated data on the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa indicate that, as of September 23, a total of 6,574 cases had been reported from five West Africa countries (Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone). The highest reported case counts were from Liberia (3,458 cases), Sierra Leone (2,021), and Guinea (1,074).

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Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak — Nigeria, July–September 2014 Faisal Shuaib, DrPH, Rajni Gunnala, MD, Emmanuel O. Musa, MBBS, et al. MMWR 2014;63(Early Release):1-6 On July 20, an acutely ill traveler from Liberia arrived at the international airport in Lagos, Nigeria, and was confirmed to have Ebola virus disease after being admitted to a private hospital. The Federal Ministry of Health, with the Lagos State government and international partners, activated an Ebola Incident Management Center as a precursor to the current Emergency Operations Center to rapidly respond to this outbreak. The index patient died on July 25; as of September 24, there were 19 laboratory-confirmed Ebola cases and one probable case in two states, with 894 contacts identified and followed during the response.

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Importation and Containment of Ebola Virus Disease — Senegal, August–September 2014 Kelsey Mirkovic, PhD, Julie Thwing, MD, Papa Amadou Diack, MD. MMWR 2014;63(Early Release):1-2 On August 29, 2014, Senegal confirmed its first case of Ebola virus disease in a Guinean man, aged 21 years, who had traveled from Guinea to Dakar, Senegal, in mid-August to visit family. Senegalese medical and public health personnel were alerted about this patient after public health staff in Guinea contacted his family in Senegal on August 27. This report describes the investigation and containment measures that followed.