SIERRA LEONE The column chartThe shows column numbers chart of shows new numberscases based of new on CDC cases data. based on CDC data. 8/7/14 8/7/14 The line graph is Thethe epidemicline graph curve is the and epidemic shows curvethe cumulative and shows number the cumulative number Saudi man dies of afSauditer visiting man dies Sierra of Leone.Ebola after Saudi visiting Arabia Sierra suspends Leone. Saudi Arabia LIBERIA suspends LIBERIA of cases. The scaleof for cases. the Thecolumn scale chart for theis on column the left. chart The is sharp on the increase left. The sharp increase Hajj visas for the most-affectedHajj visas West for African the most-affected countries. West African countries. in cases in Octoberin cases2014 inis Octoberpartly an 2014artifact is ofpartly counting an artifact methods. of counting methods. 8/15/14 8/2/148/15/14 8/2/14 10/17/14 10/17/14 Government announces itGovernment will build more announces ETUs. MSF it will expands build more facilities. ETUs. MSF expandsSamaritan’s facilities. Purse staff arriveSamaritan’s in U.S. Purse staff arrive in U.S. Defense minister to lead NationalDefense Ebolaminister to lead National Ebola for treatment. LIBERIAfor treatment. LIBERIA Response Centre. Response Centre. 8/4/14 8/4/14 3,000 3,000 LIBERIA LIBERIA Government orders cremationGovernment of those orders cremation of those who die from Ebola. who die from Ebola. GUINEA GUINEA 7/1/14 7/1/14 SIERRA LEONE, TotalSIERRA Cases; LEONE, 14,123 Total Cases; 14,123 Liberia’s health minister asksLiberia’s for US health CDC assistance.minister asks for US CDC assistance. 8/6/14 8/6/14 11/14/14 11/14/14 Catholic hospital in LiberiaCatholic closes. hospital in Liberia closes. Ebola National CoordinatorEbola Sakoba National Keita Coor launchesdinator a toll-free Sakoba EbolaKeita launches a toll-free Ebola 7/20/14 7/20/14 Spanish priest falls ill, diesSpanish after return priest falls ill, dies after return Liberian falls ill on a flightLiberian to Lagos falls and ill dieson a 3flight days laterto Lagos in a Nigerian and dies hospital. 3 days later 19 peoplein a Nigerian contract hospital. the disease 19 people from contracthim and the 8 die. disease from him and 8 die. call center and creates villagecall centercommittees and creates for social village mobilization committees based for social on mobilization based on to Spain. to Spain. model used in Liberia andmodel Sierra used Leone. in Liberia and Sierra Leone. 7/27/14 7/27/14 8/6/14 8/6/14 Over 50 healthcare workersOver infected 50 healthcare in one month.Well-known workers infected in doctor, one month. Samuel Well-known Brisbane, doctor,dies from Samuel Ebola. Brisbane, dies from Ebola. President Sirleaf announcesPresident 90-day Sirleaf announces 90-day LIBERIA LIBERIA President Sirleaf creates EbolaPresident task force.Sirleaf creates Ebola task force. state of emergency. Guinea,state Liberia, of emergency. and Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone commit to usingSierra troops Leone and commit to using troops and Government closes bordersGovernment and schools. closes borders and schools. police to enforce isolationpolice of people to enforce in isolation of people in 11/13/14 11/13/14 border-area. border-area. Liberia ends its state of emergency.Liberia ends its state of emergency. LIBERIA LIBERIA 8/10/14 8/10/14 SIERRA LEONE SIERRA LEONE MONTHLY EBOLA CASES MONTHLY EBOLA CASES MONTHLY Liberia launches Ebola IncidentLiberia launches Ebola Incident 2/16/15 2/16/15 LIBERIA, Total Cases:LIBERIA, 10,675 Total Cases: 10,675 LIBERIA LIBERIA Management System. Management System. Schools reopen. Schools reopen. 7/29/14 7/29/14 3/29/14 3/29/14 8/16/14 8/16/14 2,000 2,000 Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, pioneer Dr. Sheik of national Umar Khan, response, pioneer of national response, GUINEA GUINEA First confirmed Ebola cases.First confirmed Ebola cases. dies after becoming infected.dies after becoming infected. Protestors loot clinic in Monrovia’sProtestors West loot clinic in Monrovia’s West Point neighborhood, potentiallyPoint neighborhood, exposing potentially exposing 7/31/14 7/31/14 many to disease. many to disease. 3/28/15 3/28/15 President Koroma declaresPresident state of emergencyKoroma declares and state of emergency and Following new outbreak, governmentFollowing new outbreak, government LIBERIA LIBERIA GUINEA GUINEA opens emergency operationsopens center. emergency operations center. 8/19-20/14 8/19-20/14 GUINEA GUINEA renews health emergencyrenews for health emergency for West Point neighborhoodWest quarantined. Point neighborhood quarantined. another 3-months. another 3-months. 5/9/15 5/9/15 Security forces in MonroviaSecurity fire shots forces and in Monrovia fire shots and 2/17/15 2/17/15 WHO declares WHO declares 3/13/14 3/13/14 SIERRA LEONE SIERRA LEONE tear gas to disperse crowdtear protesting gas to disperse crowd protesting Trial of “Ebola-Tx” using Trial of “Ebola-Tx” using Liberia Ebola -free. Liberia Ebola -free. Guinea health ministry issuesGuinea alert health about ministry unidentified issues alertdisease.WHO about unidentified disease. WHO quarantine, killing a 15-year-oldquarantine, boy. killing a 15-year-old boy. convalescent plasma convalescent plasma Africa regional office opensAfrica emergency regional officemanagement opens emergencysystem for a management system for a 6/11/14 6/11/14 begins in Guinea. begins in Guinea. disease believed to be Lassadisease Fever. believed to be .Closes borders with LiberiaCloses and Guinea borders and with shuts Liberia and Guinea and shuts down schools in affected areas.down schools in affected areas. 4/17/15 4/17/15 3/14/14 3/14/14 Guinea, Liberia, and Guinea, Liberia, and SIERRA LEONE SIERRA LEONE Guinea’s health ministry,WHO,Guinea’s and health MSF launchministry, investigation. WHO, and MSF launch investigation. GUINEA GUINEA Sierra Leone unveil Ebola Sierra Leone unveil Ebola GUINEA GUINEA LIBERIA LIBERIA recovery plans. recovery plans. 3/22/14 3/22/14 6/16/15 6/16/15 MSF sets up field hospitalMSF in Guéckédou.sets up field hospital in Guéckédou. 1/19/15 1/19/15 Launch of Operation NorthernLaunch Push of Oper to haltation Northern Push to halt 4/1/14 4/1/14 6/17/14 6/17/14 Schools reopen. Schools reopen. SIERRA SIERRA Ebola cases in the country’sEbola northern cases districts.in the country’s northern districts. Protective gear and suppliesProtective gear and supplies Ebola reaches Ebola reaches LEONE LEONE 1,000 1,000 from WHO arrive. from WHO arrive. capital, capital, Monrovia. Monrovia. GUINEA, Total Cases:GUINEA, 3,804 Total Cases: 3,804 GUINEA GUINEA 4/4/14 4/4/14 4/14/15 4/14/15 Mob attacks a treatment center.Mob attacks a treatment center. Schools reopen. Schools reopen. 1/1/14 1/1/14 GUINEA Infected GUINEA person travels to Infectedcapital, person travels to capital, GUINEA GUINEA Conakry.The disease spreadsConakry. The disease spreads SIERRA LEONE SIERRA LEONE along travel route. along travel route. SIERRA SIERRA LIBERIA LIBERIA 12/28/13 12/28/13 5/1/14 LEONE5/1/14 LEONE Patient zero, 1/24/14Patient zero, 1/24/14 President Condé President Condé 6/29/15 6/29/15 11/7/15 11/7/15 a child from Meliandoua child from health post informsMeliandou health post informs tells WHO the 5/25/14tells WHO the 5/25/14 New Ebola case New Ebola case Sierra Leone declared EbolaSierra free. Leone declared Ebola free. 1/14/16 1/14/16 Meliandou districtMeliandou health officials of districtmysterious, health officials of mysterious, outbreak is Sierraoutbreak Leone is Sierra Leone confirmed. confirmed. Additional cases appear later.Additional cases appear later. All 3 countries are All 3 countries are Village, fatalVillage, disease. fatal disease. ending. WHO confirmsending. WHO its confirms its declared Ebola-free for declared Ebola-free for Guéckédou, Guéckédou, says maintain firstsays case.maintain first case. 42 days.WHO warns 42 days.WHO warns near border with 1/27/14near border with 1/27/14 vigilance. vigilance. that virus likely to that virus likely to Liberia, falls ill NationalLiberia, health falls ill team investigates.National health team investigates. remerge, however. remerge, however. and dies. and dies. 0 0 DEC2013 JANDEC20142013 FEBJAN20142014 MARFEB20142014 APRMAR20142014 MAYAPR20142014 JUNMAY20142014 JULJUN20142014 AUGJUL20142014 AUG2014 OCT2014 NOVOCT20142014 DECNOV20142014 JANDEC20152014 FEBJAN20152015 MARFEB20152015 APRMAR20152015 MAYAPR20152015 JUNMAY20152015 JULJUN20152015 AUGJUL20152015 SEPAUG20152015 OCTSEP20152015 NOVOCT20152015 DECNOV20152015 JANDEC20162015 JAN2016 2/13/14 3/22/142/13/14 4/1/143/22/14 4/1/14 6/4/14 7/2/146/4/14 8/4/147/2/14 8/4/14 10/5/14 Early10/5/14 Nov. 12/11/14Early Nov. 1/18/1512/11/14 2/24/151/18/15 3/3/152/24/15 4/14/153/3/15 5/18/154/14/15 6/30/155/18/15 7/31/156/30/15 7/31/15 11/18/15 11/18/15 1/4/16 1/4/16 WHO, other InstitutWHO, Pasteur other MSFInstitut says Pasteur MSF says WHO official says WHOWHO meets official with says US WHOactivates meets Disaster with US activates Disaster US establishes UKUS sets establishes up and USUK Congress sets up and WHOUS Congress announces WHOWHO convenes announces LiberianWHO presidentconvenes USLiberian CDC and president African WorldUS CDC Health and AfricanUS World Operation Health United UNMEERUS Operation closes United UNMEER closes UN Special Envoy UN Special Envoy USAID disbands USAID disbands international confirmsinternational disease epidemic’sconfirms spread disease epidemic’s spread declaring a “public healthdeclaring ministers a “public Assistancehealth ministersResponse Assistance Response Ebola cargo hub staffsEbola 3 labs cargo in hub passesstaffs Ebola 3 labs in endpasses of outbreak Ebola firstend workshop of outbreak callsfirst for “Marshallworkshop Unioncalls forcollaborate “Marshall AssemblyUnion collaborateconvenes AssistanceAssembly ends convenes and andAssistance hands overends and and hands over for Ebola cautions for Ebola cautions Ebola DART in Ebola DART in organizations, the asorganizations, Ebola. the is “unprecedented.”as Ebola. is “unprecedented.” health emergency fromhealth 11 Africanemergency Team.from 11 African Team. in Senegal. Sierrain Senegal. Leone supplementalSierra Leone insupplemental Mali. of thein Mali. Global Plan”of the for regionalGlobal toPlan” create for African regional to considerto create WHO African remainingto consider military WHO leadershipremaining role military leadership role that response is that response is West Africa. West Africa. US, and 28 other US, and 28 other WHO spokesman WHO spokesman of international countries.of international countries. appropriations appropriations Ebola Vaccination recovery.Ebola Vaccination Centersrecovery. for Disease reforms,Centers and for the Disease personnelreforms, leaveand the topersonnel WHO. leave to WHO. not complete. not complete. countries launch 3/28/14countries launch calls3/28/14 epidemic calls epidemic concern” should be concern” should be 8/6/14 8/6/14 10/8/14 11/10/1410/8/14 request.11/10/14 1/25/15request. Implementation1/25/15 Implementation Control and lessonsControl of Ebola. and Liberia.lessons of Ebola. Liberia. the Global Health WHOthe Global Global Health “relativelyWHO Global small “relatively small a “last resort.” 7/9/14a “last resort.” WHO7/9/14 Emergency WHO Emergency Britain says it will US-builtBritain and says staffed it will US-built and staffed US president TeamUS to president plan large- Team to plan large- Prevention. Prevention. Ebola vaccine Security Agenda OutbreakSecurity AlertAgenda and still.”Outbreak Alert and still.” CDC activates CommitteeCDC activates meets. Committee meets. send 750 troops to Monroviasend 750 Medical troops to 12/16/14Monrovia Medical approves12/16/14 plan scaleapproves introduction plan scale introduction developed by developed by Response Network Response Network 6/21/14 Atlanta6/21/14 Emergency Atlanta Emergency Sierra Leone. UnitSierra opens Leone. to treat USUnit president opens signsto treat toUS transition president signs to transition 4/30/15 4/30/15 the Public Health the Public Health (GHSA). (GHSA). 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Ebola challenging Ebola 6/23/14 6/23/14 of International of International czar, Ron Klain, departmentczar, Ron Klain,and Appropriationsdepartment and Act, toAppropriations activities of Act, to activities of determined safe determined safe outbreaks that we outbreaks that we WHO releases WHO releases others help open 2015,others which help provides open civilian2015, whichresponders. provides civilian responders. and effective and effective 3/31/14 3/31/14 Meeting of WHO, EbolaMeeting Virus of Disease WHO, Concern.Ebola Virus Disease Concern. to coordinate to coordinate have ever faced,” have ever faced,” CDC, and US ambass- CDC, and US ambass- domestic and severaldomestic more andETUs . $3.7several billion more for ETUs. $3.7 billion for MSF warns of saysMSF WHO warns Assistant of says WHO Assistant Outbreak Response 8/18/14Outbreak Response 8/18/14 international efforts WHOinternational Executive efforts WHO Executive an “epidemic of a an “epidemic of a ador in Guinea Plan.ador Appeals in Guinea for Plan. 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