Ebola virus disease: from epidemiology to prophylaxis

Table 1 Epidemic outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in Africa, 1976 to 2014

Year	Starting month	Area	Species	Cases, n	Deaths, n	Fatality	Ref.
1976	June	South Sudan	SUDV	284	151	53.2%	[10]
1976	September	DRC	EBOV	318	280	88.1%	[4]
1979	October	South Sudan	SUDV	34	22	64.7%	[11]
1994	June	Gabon	EBOV	52	31	59.6%	[12]
1995	April	DRC^a	EBOV	315	250	79.4%	[12]
1996	February	Gabon	EBOV	60	45	75.0%	[12]
2000	August	Uganda	SUDV	425	224	52.7%	[17]
2001	October	DRC/Gabon	EBOV	122	96	78.7%	[18]
2002	December	DRC	EBOV	143	128	89.5%	[19]
2007^b	April	DRC	EBOV	264	187	70.8%	[20]
2007	December	Uganda	BDBV	149	37	24.8%	[15]
2012	November	Uganda	SUDV	14	7	50.0%	[21]
2012	June	DRC	BDBV	52	25	48.1%	[16]
2014^a,b	March	West Africa	EBOV	19065	7388	38.8%	[20]

EBOV: Zaire ebolavirus; SUDV, Sudan ebolavirus; BDBV, ebolavirus; DRC, The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
^aCase counts updated December 17, 2014.
^bData source: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/history/distribution-map [20].

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