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This section has archived postings of outbreaks that have occurred since the year 2000. To find information on outbreaks that have occurred prior to the year 2000, please visit the Other Resources page.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 20 cases, including 5 deaths, from Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) have been reported from Yambio County in southern Sudan. EHF has been laboratory confirmed by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Kenya Medical Research Institute. CDC has confirmed that the virus is the Ebola-Sudan strain (incubation period: 2-21 days), one of three previously recognized Ebola virus strains known to cause human disease. For information regarding
the recent cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever syndrome in south Sudan,
please refer to the World
Health Organization's (WHO) Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response
page.
For information regarding
cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever syndrome in The Republic of the Congo,
please refer to the World
Health Organization's (WHO) Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response
page.
On May 6, 2002, the
Gabonese Ministry of Health declared that the Ebola hemorrhagic fever
outbreak in the Ogooué-Ivindo province had ended. CDC participated
with the Gabonese and Congolese Ministries of Health, the World
Health Organization (WHO), the International Center for Medical Research
in Franceville, Gabon, and other partners in an international response
to the outbreak in the Ogooué-Ivindo province of Gabon and in neighboring
villages in the Republic of the Congo. For more information
about the outbreak, please refer to the World
Health Organization's Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Page.
On February 27, 2001, Uganda was declared officially to be free of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, following a 42-day period, twice the maximum incubation period, during which no new cases had been reported. Between
October 2000 and February 2001, CDC participated with the World
Health Organization (WHO), the
Ugandan Ministry of Health, Medecins
Sans Frontieres (MSF), and other partners in an international response
to the outbreak. For more information about the outbreak in Uganda or about viral hemorrhagic fevers in general, please refer to the following: Outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever--Uganda, August 2000 --January 2001, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, February 09, 2001. World
Health Organization’s Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Page CDC Fact Sheet on Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever The CDC and WHO manual: "Infection Control for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting.”
In September 2000, the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and subsequently the Ministry of Health of Yemen received reports of unexplained hemorrhagic fever in humans and associated animal deaths from the southwestern border of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. CDC confirmed the outbreak to be caused by Rift Valley fever virus. For additional information,
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