2014 Ebola (EVD, Ebola Virus Disease) outbreak in Africa
This information portal on the 2014-2015 Ebola (EVD, Ebola Virus Disease) outbreak in Africa was created by Harro Westra of the African Studies Centre in Leiden and is no longer being updated.
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Hand picked news: our selection of news on the Ebola outbreak - updated until 21 October 2014
Tracking the Ebola outbreak, resources and factsheets | CDC / ECDC | WHO | More from UN | MSF | Updates from African governments | Other organizations | Updates on Twitter | More medical resources
FAQ: practical facts and information about Ebola | Maps | EU and US government information - travel advise: FR - NL - UK - USA - EU
African government information: DR Congo | Guinea | Liberia | Nigeria | Senegal | Sierra Leone | Regional organisations: ECOWAS and AU
African news media | International news media | Newsfeed African news | Newsfeed international news | Feed: Tweets from relevant health organizations
As of 2014, the most widespread epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history is currently ongoing in three West African countries. It has caused significant mortality, with a reported case fatality rate (CFR) of about 71%. It began in Guinea in December 2013 and then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. A small outbreak of twenty cases occurred in Nigeria, and one case occurred in Senegal. The latter two countries were declared disease-free on 20 October 2014 after a 42 day waiting period. Secondary infections of medical workers have occurred in the United States and Spain but have not spread further. One imported case has been identified in Mali with two more possible cases under investigation. An independent outbreak of EVD in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that started in August 2014 has been shown by genetic analysis to be unconnected to the main epidemic.
Updates: tracking the Ebola outbreak
Updates and resources on Ebola Virus Disease and the Ebola outbreak - latest news, roadmaps, factsheets, other resources, tweets, blogs
- ECDC - Ebola and Marburg fevers
- ECDC - Epidemiological Updates
- ECDC - Ebola: Factsheet for the general public
- ECDC - Outbreaks - on Twitter
UN - WHO - World Health Organization
- WHO Africa - Epidemic & Pandemic Alert and Resons (EPR)
- WHO Africa - EPR - Disease outbreak news
- WHO Africa - EPR - Ebola virus disease in West Africa
- WHO Africa - EPR - Country offices
- WHO - Ebola situation reports
- WHO - Ebola response roadmap
WHO Country offices
MSF - Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders)
- MSF/AZG - BE - Ebola (Dutch
- MSF/AZG - BE - Ebola (Francais)
- MSF/AZG - NL - Ebola (Dutch)
- MSF - FR (Francais)
- MSF - UK - Ebola
- MSF - USA
African governments (more here)
- Ministry of Healt and Sanitation - Sierra Leone - updates
- MOHSW - Sierra Leone - on Facebook
- MicatLiberia on twitter
- USAID - Ebola disaster response
- USAID - Ebola news and resources
- USAID - Non-Governmental Organizations Responding to Ebola
- ActionAid
- Africa Focus Bulletin - Health as a Human Right
- Africare.org - Ebola
- American Red Cross
- Amref Health Africa
- Catholic Relief Services
- CDC Foundation
- CFR - Council on Foreign Relations - Sub-Saharan Africa
- CIDRAP - Ebola - News
- Concern USA
- Cordaid.org
- CSIS - Centre for Strategic and International Studies (US) - Ebola (search string)
- EngAyde - Concerned Sierra Leoneans Taking Action
- Eurosurveillance
- Gatesfoundation.org - Ebola (search string)
- Global Biodefense
- Healthmap.org - Disease Daily
- Healthmap.org - Ebola
- Humanitarian Response West and Central Africa - Ebola outbreak
- IFRC - Ebola (search string)
- International SOS - Latest news
- International SOS - Ebola
- Heartt Foundation - Ebola (search string)
- Heartt Foundation - Liberia
- Kickebola.org (Dutch)
- King's College London - Ebola (search string)
- King's Sierra Leone Partnership
- Les Roberts blog - Columbia University
- LionHeart foundation (Dutch)
- Mondiale Ontwikkeling - MO.be - Ebola (search string) (Dutch)
- OOAS - Ebola
- OSIWA
- Peoples Health Movement
- Plan International - Ebola appeal
- Plan USA
- PLOS.org - Current outbreaks
- PROMED.org - Afrique Francophone
- Red Cross - Liberian Red Cross Society
- Red Cross - Sierra Leone Red Cross Society
- Samaritans' Purse
- Save the Children
- USAfricaNetwork.org
- US Army Medical Department - News Releases
- West African Research Organization
- More here: USAID - Non-Governmental Organizations Responding to Ebola
Health and aid organizations on Twitter
- MSF Int.
- MSF/AZG (Dutch)
- MSF Belgique (Francais)
- MSF in DRCongo
- MSF FR (Francais)
- MSF Picturedesk
- MSF UK
- MSF USA
Others on Twitter
List items and order may be subject to (frequent) change
- Africafocus.org
- BBC Africa
- British High Commission - Freetown
- Ebolafacts
- iLabLiberia
- MySierraLeoneOnline
- OnOurRadar
Spokespersons, health and aid employees and officials, journalists, citizen journalists, other specialists on Twitter - tweets are in many cases own views
- Aryne Baker
- Ishmael Beah
- Adia Benton
- Daniel Berehulak
- Helen Branswell
- Jason Cone
- Sarah Crowe
- Abdoulaye Mar Dieye
- Kim Yi Dionne
- Claire McDougall
- Abena Dove
- Umaru Fofana
- Tom Frieden
- Laurie Garreth
- Bob Ghosn
- Rosmary Jah
- Crawford Kilian
- Estrella Lasry
- Ian M Mackay
- David McLachlan-Karr
- Roeland Monasch
- Ginny Mooij (Dutch / English)
- W. Gyude Moore
- Sudipto Mukerjee
- Nicola Orsini
- Jennah Scott
- Tarah C. Smith
- Ben C. Solomon
- Michael Stulman
- Brian Sullivan
- Bate Felix Tabi Tabe
- Abdul Tejan-Cole
- UNDP live tweeting
More resources from medical science
- Aetiology - Tara C. Smith - blog
- African Society for Laboratory Medicine - resources on Ebola
- CIDRAP - Ebola - Resources
- Harvard Medical School - Ebola (search string)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Ebola (search string)
- Medisch contact - Ebola (search string) (Dutch)
- New England Journal of Medicine - Ebola (search string)
- Nature.com - Ebola (search string)
- Oxford Journal of Infectuous Diseases - Ebola (search string)
- Pathogen Perspectives - blog
- Science Magazine - Ebola (search string)
- The Lancet - Ebola Resource Centre
- Travel Clinic - Havenziekenhuis - Ebola (Dutch)
- Virology - blog
- Virology Down Under - blog
Practical facts and information about Ebola
Prevention, other resources
- CDC - Ebola Resources - Factsheets
- ECDC - Ebola: Factsheet for the general public
- WHO - Frequently asked questions on Ebola virus disease
- Ebola resources - Afican Society for Laboratory Medicine
- How NOT to catch Ebola: A pictorial guide from International SOS
- What is Ebola - Ebolafacts.com
You may also want to have a look at information from US en EU governments, and from African governments. More resources and factsheets can be found here.
See the full map: Map by Healthmap.org - bigger map - You can use the interactive slider above to see the development of the outbreak
- BBC - Ebola: Mapping the outbreak
- CDC - Outbreak Distribution Map
- Humanitarian Response West and Central Africa - Ebola outbreak
- Humanitarian Response WCA - Virus Ebola (Francais)
- Humanitarian Response WCA - Ebola dashboard
- Reliefweb - Disasters
- Reliefweb - EVD Outbreak - 29 September
- Reliefweb - EVD Outbreak - 18 September
- Reliefweb - EVD Outbreak - 9 September
- A short visual history of the Ebola epidemic - Vox
- UN WHO - Ebola virus disease outbreaks: maps
- Wikipedia map
More interactive and other
EU and US government information - travel advice and government response
- France Diplomatie - conseils aux voyageurs - Ebola - Afrique de l’Ouest
- Ministère de la Santé - Ebola
- Ministère de la Santé - Ebola : professionnels de santé
- Ministère de la Santé - Ebola : voyageurs
- RIVM - onderwerpen - Ebola
- RIVM - topics - Ebola (English)
- Rijksoverheid - reisadviezen
- Rijksoverheid - reisadviezen - rss feed
- UK Government - Ebola (search string)
- UK Government - Ebola response
- UK Government - Ebola response - news
- UK Government - foreign travel advice
- CDC - Ebola
- CDC - Travel
- US Dept. of State - Africa
- US Dept. of State - Travel alerts and warnings
- US Dept. of State - West Afrika Ebola travel alert
- US respons to the Ebola Outbreak - factsheet
- A Europe-wide response to the Ebola epidemic
- The European Union’s response to Ebola - EPthinktank
- The EU's response to the Ebola crisis - European Commission
Regional organisations of African states
African government information
Alternative links:
- Ministry of Information - Ebola update
- Ministry of Information - Official online portal
- Ministry of Information - on Twitter
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
- Federal Ministry of Health - Press releases
- Ministry of Information
- Nigeria Health and Ethics news
- Official government site - Issues - Health
- Gouvernement du Sénégal - Communiqués officiels (Francais)
- Ministère de la Santé et de l'Action Sociale (Francais)
- Ministry of Health and Sanitation
- Ministry of Health and Sanitation - Ebola
- Ministry of Health and sanitation on Facebook
Other African countries - no registered cases of Ebola in the following countries:
- Benin - Ministère de la Santé Publique
- Burkina Faso - Ministère de la Santé
- Ghana - Ministry of Health
- Ivory Coast - Ministère de la Santé
- Mali - Ministère de la Santé
- South Africa - Healt Dept. - Ebola
- Togo - Rubriques - Santé
Other sources, our pick from the web. You will find more here
Please take note: this news archive was last updated on 21 October 2014, and is no longer actively maintained. We refer to the many news sites, news (RSS) feeds and twitter accounts mentioned on this page for latest updates, analysis and opinions.
16 -31 October 2014
- Ebola cases rise sharply in western Sierra Leone - Washington Post - 21 October 2014
- “The Hot Zone” and the mythos of Ebola - Aetiology - 21 October 2014
- Pregnant in the shadow of Ebola: Deteriorating health systems endanger women - UNFPA - 20 October 2014
- As Ebola patients vanish in Liberia’s health system, survivors go on a desperate search - Washington Post - 20 October 2014
- Where's the empathy for Ebola's African victims? - CNN - 20 October 2014
- Ebola Travel Ban Bill Would Stop New Visas For People From 3 West African Countries - Int. Business Times - 20 October 2014
- Rotterdam Global Health Initiative - Ebola: een harde wake-up call - 20 October 2014
- Special Ducth Envoy receives petition during Africa Works conference - ASC Leiden - 19 October 2014
- Keynote speech by Julia Duncan-Cassell, Liberia Minister of Gender and Development - Africa Works conference - ASC Leiden (PDF)- 19 October 2014
- Documenting with dignity in the Ebola zone - Washington Post - 19 October 2014
- ‘There is no Ebola here’: What Liberia teaches us about the failures of aid - AfricaIsaCountry - 19 October 2014
- In Homeland, Liberia Native Finds Resilience Amid Horror - NY Times - 19 October 2014
- How the microscopic Ebola virus kills thousands - Washington Post - 18 October 2014
- Photos: A reporter’s journey through an Ebola-stricken Liberia - Washington Post - 17 October 2014
- Experts Oppose Ebola Travel Ban, Saying It Would Cut Off Worst-Hit Countries - NY Times - 17 October 2014
- How Cuba is leading the international fight against Ebola - Public Radio International - 17 October 2014
- Video Feature: Fighting Ebola, Street by Street - NY Times - 16 October 2014
1-15 October 2014
- What Can We Learn From How Nigeria Contained Ebola? Not That Much. - Slate - 15 October 2014
- Ebola by the numbers: The size, spread and cost of an outbreak - Nature - 15 October 2014
- It’s Columbus Day. Let’s talk about geography (and Ebola). - NY Times - 13 October 2014
- Ebola outbreak could lead to an economic disaster in West Africa for years to come - Independent - 12 October 2014
- Les Roberts – “Day 7: Brutal Triage” - blog - 12 October 2014
- "Ebola wordt een globaal probleem wat de hele wereld aangaat" - Roel Couthino - NOS (audio) (Dutch) - 11 October 2014
- The Rain after the Drought: Ebola, International Assistance and Community Initiatives in Liberia, by Charles Lawrence - Mats Utas' blog - 10 October 2014
- Here Are All The Times Doctors Without Borders Tried To Warn Us About Ebola - Huffington Post - 10 October 2014
- Ebola virus - current realities and myths - ASC Leiden - 9 October 2014
- Ebola: Where we are; where we should be - AfricaIsaCoun try - 9 October 2014
- Ebola: learn from the past - Nature - 9 October 2014
- Ebola: the story of the Sierra Leone diaspora response that no one is telling - Guardian - 9 October 2014
- Ebola: ‘We’re at an absolute tipping point,’ warns David Miliband - Guardian - 9 October 2014
- Ebola crisis: 'Money not enough,' says David Miliband - BBC - 9 October 2014
- UN Chief appoints three Ebola crisis managers - Sierra Leone Times - 9 October 2014
- Guinea: Ebola Crisis 'Permeates Every Aspect of People's Lives' in Guinea, UN Warns - UN News - 9 October 2014
- Global response to Ebola has ‘failed miserably’, says World Bank chief - The Guardian - 8 October 2014
- Africa: Ebola - FAO Launches New Initiative to Tackle Growing Food Security Threat - 8 October 2014
- West Africa: Ebola - New World Bank Group Study Forecasts Billions in Economic Loss if Epidemic Lasts Longer, Spreads in West Africa - 8 October 2014
- Coordination vital to ending Ebola, Guinean President tells UN delegation - UNDP - 8 October 2014
- Africa: Ebola Perspectives - AfricaFocus Bulletin - 7 October 2014
- One Powerful Illustration Shows Exactly What's Wrong With How the West Talks About Ebola - World Mic - 7 October 2014
- Ebola in Perspective - Cultural Anthropology Journal - 7 October 2014
- Ebola strips Africans of their humanity, by Ginny Mooy - Mats Utas' blog - 6 October 2014
- Urgent action on Ebola needed to avert regional collapse, say UN development officials - UNDP - 6 October 2014
- Ebola must never again be allowed to claim lives for want of basic healthcare - The Guardian Global Development - 6 October 2014
- Scientists predict Ebola will hit Europe in coming weeks - 6 October 2014
- The Observer view on the Ebola outbreak - The world needs to face up to this global crisis - 5 October 2014
- Ebola-ramp dringt niet tot ons door - Volkskrant (Dutch) - 4 October 2014
- Ebola’s Cultural Casualty: Hugs in Hands-On Liberia - NY Times - 4 October 2014
- Ebola Healthcare Workers Are Dying Faster Than Their Patients - Time - 3 October 2014
- A Hospital From Hell, in a City Swamped by Ebola - NYTimes - 2 October 2014
- One Horrifying Sentence Explains Why Ebola Has Spread So Quickly - Businessinsider - 2 October 2014
- New Report Shows Ebola Misconceptions and Stigma Persist in Sierra Leone - CRS Newswire - 1 October 2014
16-30 September 2014
- Could the Ebola virus epidemic have been prevented? Virology blog - 30 September 2014
- Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic, By Sharon Abramowitz - Mats Utas' blog - 29 September 2014
- Ebola: an open letter to European governments - The Lancet - 26 September 2014
- Open brief: EU moet meer doen tegen ebola - MO.be - 26 September 2014
- AFRICOM’s Ebola response and the militarization of humanitarian aid - NY Times - 25 September 2014
- Liberia: Traditional Practices Causes Ebola Prevalence - Pres. Sirleaf - 25 September 2014
- Ebola crisis calls for 'strong' action, Obama tells United Nations - CNN - 25 September 2014
- Le virus Ebola déstabilise le gouvernement libérien - Stephen Ellis on Radion Vatican - 24 September 2014
- European Union must act on ebola outbreak in Liberia now - Scientists and politicians plea for special fund - 24 September 2014
- Richt een ebolafonds op en stel een Speciale Europese Gezant aan. Nu! (Dutch) - 24 September 2014
- Ebola drains already weak West African health systems - BBC - 24 September 2014
- CDC: Ebola cases could reach at least 550,000 by January - 24 September 2014
- Ebola epidemic exposes the pathology of the global economic and political system - PH Movement paper (PDF) - 23 September 2014
- Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa - The First 9 Months of the Epidemic and Forward Projections - New England Journal of Medicine - 23 September 2014
- Liberia: Ebola Weakens Liberia Food Security - 23 September 2014
- Ebola : pourquoi l'armée américaine entre en scène au Liberia - Stephen Ellis / Jeune Afrique - 23 September 2014
- 2014-09-21, OVT 10.18 - Stephen Ellis - Ebola, Liberia en Amerika (audio) - 21 September 2014
- Ebola survival story - Dr. Ada Igonoh - 21 September 2014
- Is the Ebola lockdown succeeding? - 21 September 2014
- Umaru Fofana - Facebook - The issue of corpses is at the heart of the Ebola lockdown - 20 September 2014
- The Most Terrifying Thing About Ebola - Slate - 19 September 2014
- We All Must Respond to Ebola - USAfricaNetwork.org - 19 September 2014
- Ebola’s international impact / Articles - The Broker - 19 September 2014
- Don’t forget: Liberia, ravaged by the Ebola epidemic, was created by the U.S. - The Washington Post - 19 September 2014
- The West ignores the stories of Africans in the middle of the Ebola outbreak - The Washington Post - 19 September 2014
- World Bank warns Ebola's economic impact in West Africa - Sierra Leone Times - 18 September 2014
- Inge Ligtvoet - blog - Ebola and the social media in Nigeria: on the social function of humour in crisis - 18 September 2014
- Ebola: Economic Impact Already Serious; Could Be “Catastrophic” Without Swift Response - 17 September 2014
- What CAN we say about Ebola? (without starting a panic or making everyone mad) - 17 September 2014
- Ebola UN speech: "The response remains totally, and lethally, inadequate" | MSF UK - 16 September 2014
- Some ebola message translations from Freetown - Beyond Niamey - 16 September 2014
1-15 September 2014
- ‘It’s despair on all fronts,’ says Ebola aid worker - The Washington Post - 15 September 2014
- Ebola: 'In decades of humanitarian work, I've never seen such suffering' | Comment is free | The Observer - 14 September 2014
- World War E: How ebola turned Liberia into a zombie movie — Matter - 14 September 2014
- Reddit.com AMA (Ask Me Anything) with MSF's Estrella Lasry - 12 September 2014
- EPThinktank - The European Union’s response to Ebola - 12 September 2014
- A concrete response to the Ebola outbreak cannot wait - The Washington Post - 11 September 2014
- The world yawns as Ebola takes hold in West Africa - The Washington Post - 11 September 2014
- AfricaFocus.org - on Ebola response scale-up - 10 September 2014
- West African Research Association - Open letter to President Obama (PDF) - 8 September 2014
- The EU's response to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa - 5 September 2014
- Beyond the health crisis: Ebola hits Liberia’s economy hard, by Patrick Hettinger - Mats Utas' blog - 3 September 2014
- Pundits panicking about Ebola hurt cause they mean to help - NY Times - 1 September 2014
March - August 2014
- What’s missing in the Ebola fight in West Africa - The Washington Post - 31 August 2014
- Ebola exhausts health systems: more resources are needed - Adia Benton - 26 August 2014
- The Complexity of Ebola & Its Misrepresentation in the West, by Theresa Ammann - Mats Utas' blog - 22 August 2014
- Ebola, mistrust and humanitarian mobility? by Adia Benton - Mats Utas' blog - 18 August 2014
- Time to cut the hype and focus on the real dangers of Ebola - The Washington Post - 17 August 2014
- Hunger is the new danger inside the Ebola zone - 4News -- 12 August 2014
- Liberia’s Ebola Response: The Lull, the Storm and the Aftermath, by Charles Lawrence - Mats Utas' blog - 12 August 2014
- Africacheck.org - on Ebola 'cure' hoaxes - 11 August 2014
- Can the World Health Organization lead? Do we want it to? - Washington Post - 8 August 2014
- A historical perspective on Ebola response and prevention - Aetiology - 7 August 2014
- People are struggling to bury the Ebola dead. Here’s why - NY Times - Video - 7 August 2014
- Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee: Ebola threatens to derail a decade of peace - Guardian - 6 August 2014
- The real Ebola risk is to Africa, not the United States - The Washington Post - 5 August 2014
- Why Ebola Patients Are Rejecting Care - NY Times - Video - 27 july 2014
- The Ebola virus and the vampire state, by Susan Shepler - Mats Utas' blog - 21 July 2014
- Ebola: voices from the epicentre of the epidemic - Guardian - 14 july 2014
- Ebola’s Deadly Spread in Africa Driven by Public Health Failures, Cultural Beliefs - National Geographic - 2 July 2014
- West Africa can’t manage the Ebola outbreak - Washington Post - 29 June 2014
- West Africa Ebola epidemic is 'out of control' - The Guardian Global Development - 23 June 2014
- Tackling the ebola epidemic in west Africa: why we need a holistic approach - Guardian - 19 June 2014
- Ebola outbreak in Guinea 'limited geographically' - WHO - BBC - 1 April 2014
- Ebola toll rises in 'unprecedented' outbreak - BBC - 1 April 2014
- Ebola Reaches Capital of Guinea, Stirring Fears - 1 April 2014
- Ebola outbreak in Guinea unprecedented - MSF - 31 March 2014
African and international news media
African news media about Ebola
- AllAfrica.com - DR Congo
- AllAfrica.com - Guinea
- AllAfrica.com - Liberia
- AllAfrica.com - Nigeria
- AllAfrica.com - Senegal
- AllAfrica.com - Sierra Leone
- AllAfrica.com - Rubriques - Santé (Francais)
- AllAfrica.com - Rubriques - Santé (Francais) (RSS feed)
International news media about Ebola
- Eboladeeply.org
- Economist - Ebola (search string)
- Financial Times - Ebola (search string)
- ForeignPolicy.com - Disasters
- France24 - Ebola (search string) (Francais)
- Huffington Post - Ebola news
- Le Monde - Afrique (Francais)
- Le Monde - Ebola (Francais) (search string)
- NBC News Ebola coverage
- Newsweek - Ebola (search string)
- NOS - Ebola (search string) (Dutch)
- NPR.org - Ebola (search string)
- NPR.org - Goats and Soda blog
- NY Times - Africa
- NY Times - Ebola (search string)
- NY Times Topics: Ebola
- NY Times - Ebola Q & A and outbreak news, maps, graphs - updated
- Sargasso.nl - Ebola (Dutch)
- Slate.com - Ebola
- Thomson Reuters - Trust.org - Africa news
- Thomson Reuters - Ebola outbreak
- Topix.net - Ebola (search string)