West Africa – Ebola Outbreak Fact Sheet #23, Fiscal Year (Fy) 2015 March 4, 2015
WEST AFRICA – EBOLA OUTBREAK FACT SHEET #23, FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2015 MARCH 4, 2015 NUMBERS AT HIGHLIGHTS USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE A GLANCE TO EVD OUTBREAK RESPONSE WHO reports 132 new confirmed cases of TO DATE IN FY 2014 & FY 2015 EVD in Guinea and Sierra Leone in the 23,934 week ending on March 1. USAID/OFDA1 $463,846,949 No new EVD cases confirmed in Liberia USAID/FFP2 $57,479,546 Number of Suspected, in nearly two weeks. Probable, and Confirmed USAID/GH3 $20,076,000 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Response actors remain concerned Cases in Acutely Affected regarding ongoing EVD transmission USAID/Liberia $16,100,000 Countries* chains in Guinea’s Forécariah Prefecture, USAID/Guinea $3,482,000 UN World Health Organization where 23 EVD cases since February 28— (WHO) – DoD4 $353,958,000 March 4, 2015 more than 70 percent of the 32 confirmed cases in the same time period CDC5 $131,455,1156 countrywide—have occurred. 9,792 $1,046,397,610 Number of EVD-Related USG ASSISTANCE TO THE WEST AFRICA 7 Deaths* EVD OUTBREAK RESPONSE WHO – March 4, 2015 KEY DEVELOPMENTS 11,466 As of March 3, the Government of Liberia (GoL) Incident Management System (IMS) had Number of EVD Cases in not reported a confirmed case of EVD in 12 days, with the most recent case documented in Sierra Leone* Montserrado County on February 19. On February 27, the IMS announced that Liberia had WHO – March 4, 2015 entered Phase 3 of the EVD response, which will focus on restoring non-EVD health services and improving triage and referral processes to enable medical staff to safely identify and isolate suspect EVD cases.
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