Ebola

==History and name==
Ebola was first identified in 1976, in two simultaneous outbreaks, one in [[Nzara]] (a town in [[South Sudan]]) and the other in [[Yambuku]] ([[the Democratic Republic of the Congo]]), a village near the [[Ebola River]], for which the disease was named.<ref name="WHO2014" /> [[List of Ebola outbreaks|Ebola outbreaks]] occur intermittently in tropical regions of [[sub-Saharan Africa]].<ref name=WHO2014/> Between 1976 and 2012, according to the [[World Health Organization]], there were 24 outbreaks of Ebola resulting in a total of [[List of Ebola outbreaks|2,387 cases, and 1,590 deaths]].<ref name=WHO2014/><ref name="MMWRJune2014">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Dixon MG, Schafer IJ |date=June 2014 |title=Ebola viral disease outbreak – West Africa, 2014 |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm6325.pdf |journal=MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. |volume=63 |issue=25 |pages=548–551 |pmc=5779383 |pmid=24964881}}</ref> The largest Ebola outbreak to date was an [[Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa|epidemic in West Africa]] from December 2013 to January 2016, with {{#section:Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa|cases}} cases and {{#section:Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa|deaths}} deaths.{{#section:Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa|caserefs}}<ref name="CDC2014">{{Cite web |date=31 July 2014 |title=CDC urges all US residents to avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone because of an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola |url=https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/ebola-liberia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809181737/https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/ebola-liberia |archive-date=9 August 2014 |access-date=2 August 2014 |publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) }}</ref><ref name="CDCAug2014N">{{Cite web |date=4 August 2014 |title=2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa |url=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141002134254/https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/ |archive-date=2 October 2014 |access-date=5 August 2014 |publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC)}}</ref> On 29 March 2016, it was declared to no longer be an emergency.<ref name="who.int">{{Cite web |date=29 March 2016 |title=Statement on the 9th meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa |url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/end-of-ebola-pheic/en/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331231040/https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/end-of-ebola-pheic/en/ |archive-date=31 March 2016 |access-date=30 March 2016 |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] (WHO)}}</ref> Other outbreaks in Africa began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2017/ebola-drc/en/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512203522/https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2017/ebola-drc/en/ |archive-date=12 May 2017 |access-date=12 May 2017 |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] (WHO)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | vauthors = Hodal K |date=12 May 2017 |title=Ebola outbreak declared in Democratic Republic of the Congo after three die |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=United Kingdom |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/12/ebola-outbreak-declared-democratic-republic-of-congo-after-three-die |url-status=live |access-date=12 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512161809/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/12/ebola-outbreak-declared-democratic-republic-of-congo-after-three-die |archive-date=12 May 2017 |issn=1756-3224 |oclc=60623878}}</ref> and 2018.<ref>{{Cite news | vauthors = Scutti S, Goldschmidt D |title=Ebola outbreak declared in Democratic Republic of Congo |publisher=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/health/ebola-outbreak-who-bn/index.html |access-date=9 May 2018}}</ref><ref name="WHO2018DRCOver">{{Cite web |title=Ebola outbreak in DRC ends: WHO calls for international efforts to stop other deadly outbreaks in the country |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/24-07-2018-ebola-outbreak-in-drc-ends-who-calls-for-international-efforts-to-stop-other-deadly-outbreaks-in-the-country |access-date=26 July 2018 |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] (WHO)}}</ref> In July 2019, the World Health Organization declared the Congo Ebola outbreak a [[Public health emergency of international concern|world health emergency]].<ref>{{Cite news | vauthors = Grady D |date=17 July 2019 |title=Congo's Ebola Outbreak Is Declared a Global Health Emergency |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/health/ebola-congo-who-emergency.html |access-date=17 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717180831/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/health/ebola-congo-who-emergency.html |archive-date=17 July 2019 |issn=1553-8095 |oclc=1645522}}</ref>