WHO Ebola Update: 10/29/14

The latest WHO Ebola update document has been posted and can be found here. As of 10/27 there have been 13,703 cases with 4,922 deaths. Mali had its first case on 10/23, a 2 year old girl who traveled there with her grandmother from Guinea. In the US there have been 4 cases and 1 death. The outbreak remains uncontrolled in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

WHO: Updated Ebola Outbreak Information

The latest WHO Ebola situation report can be found here. Key points:

1) As of 10/19 there have been 9,936 cases and 4,877 deaths
2) The outbreak in Senegal was declared over on 10/17
3) The outbreak in Nigeria was declared over on 10/19

Up until 10/19 there had been only 3 cases in the US (now 4 given the physician who has developed Ebola after returning from Guinea-not on the latest WHO document). For the 3 reported on in the WHO document there were 172 possible contacts of these patients 60 of who were past the 21 day incubation period and therefore deemed non-infected.