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Situation map of the outbreak in West Africa
DateDecember 2013 – present[1]
Casualties
See notes for 5 October on Timeline Section

An epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) is ongoing. It began in Guinea in December 2013 then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone.[6] A few much smaller subsidiary outbreaks have occurred elsewhere, with outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal that appear to have been successfully contained,[7] and secondary infections of medical workers with very low case numbers in the United States and Spain,[8][9] neither of which is yet showing any signs of spreading in the general population. As of October 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local governments reported a total of 8,400 suspected cases and 4,033 deaths (4,633 cases and 2,423 deaths having been laboratory confirmed),[2] though the WHO believes that this substantially understates the magnitude of the outbreak[10] with possibly 2.5 times as many cases as have been reported.[11] On 14 October, during a news conference in Geneva, the assistant director-general of the WHO stated that there could be as many as 10,000 new Ebola cases per week by December 2014.[12][13]

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  3. ^ "10,000 New Ebola Cases Per Week By Xmas: WHO". sky NEWS. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  4. ^ Fernandez, Manny (12 October 2015). "Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola". New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
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  7. ^ "Ebola contained in Nigeria, Senegal - US health officials". 30 September 2014.
  8. ^ "Una enfermera que atendió al misionero fallecido García Viejo, contagiada de ébola" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
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  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference WHO 2014-08-22 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Martin I. Meltzer, PhD; et al. (23 September 2014). "Estimating the Future Number of Cases in the Ebola Epidemic — Liberia and Sierra Leone, 2014–2015". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 24 September 2014. {{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
  12. ^ "Ebola Cases Could Zoom to 10,000 a Week, WHO Warns". ABC News. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  13. ^ "WHO: New Ebola Cases Could Be Up To 10,000 Per Week In 2 Months". The Huffington Post. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.