10 Oct 2014 - Epidemiological update of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
Chronology of events – key dates
22 March 2014: the Guinea Ministry of Health notified WHO
about a rapidly evolving outbreak of EVD [1]. The first cases occurred in
December 2013. The outbreak is caused by a clade of Zaïre ebolavirus that is
related but distinct from the viruses that have been isolated from previous
outbreaks in central Africa, and clearly distinct from the Taï Forest ebolavirus
that was isolated in Côte d’Ivoire from 1994–1995 [2-4]. The first cases were
reported from south-eastern Guinea and the capital Conakry.
