244 Deaths Reported

Ebola Epidemic in Zaire Officially Is Over: WHO

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 4th, 1995

The International Scientific and Technical Committee, established by the World Health Organization (WHO), officially announced the end of the recent outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire on August 24, 1995. Dr. Ebrahim M. Samba, WHO Regional Director for Africa, was present at the ceremony.

The last identified case was admitted to a hospital in Kikwit on June 24, 1995 and was discharged on July 14, 1995. Since two maximum incubation periods - that is 42 days - have elapsed without any new reported cases, the conditions allowing the outbreak to be officially declared over are now met.

Active surveillance and tracing of cases and deaths...

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