The west Africa Ebola virus disease outbreak: 10 years on
Henry Kyobe Bosa, Neema Kamara, Merawi Aragaw, Misaki Wayengera, Ambrose Talisuna, James Bangura, Henry Mwebesa, Patrick DMC Katoto, Robert Kwame Agyarko, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Abdoulaye Bousso, Obasanya Joshua, Moussa Douno, Mosoka Fallah, James Sylvester Squire, Tolbert Nyenswah, Thelma V. Nelson, Justin Maeda, Tajudeen Raji, Mamadou Souncalo Traoré, Olushayo Oluseun Olu, Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, Benjamin Djoudalbaye, Ngashi Ngongo, Francis Kasolo, Placide Mbala, Ibrahima Socé Fall, Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Jean Kaseya, Jane Ruth Aceng
Abstract
On March 23, 2014, the Guinean Ministry of Health, in line with the International Health Regulations 2005, notified WHO and the world of an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD). This followed laboratory confirmation of the disease by the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal (a WHO collaborating centre), in a 16-year-old girl from Guéckédou, a small village in southern Guinea.1 This was 10 years ago.