Archive for August 2014

The CDC reports 1975 cases of Ebola with 1069 suspected deaths in the West Africa outbreak as of August 13. Guinea accounted for 510 of the patients with 670 in Liberia, 783 in Sierra Leone, and 12 in Nigeria. Although this is the world’s largest Ebola outbreak, the CDC predicts no significant risk to the…

The Ebola Virus epidemic that began in March in West Africa now involves patients in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Nigeria. Of the 1,603 cases, there have been 887 deaths, giving a mortality rate of 55 percent. The two Americans who acquired the infection in Liberia are showing remarkable response to ZMapp, a new experimental…