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Ebola virus cases in the United States
This article is about Ebola virus cases in the United States starting in 2014. For the 2013-2016 outbreak in Africa, see Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. For the U.S. discovery of a different species of the Ebolavirus genus in 1989, see Reston virus.
Ebola virus disease in the U.S.
Map of Ebola cases and infrastructure throughout the U.S.
Four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") occurred in the United States in 2014.[3] Eleven cases were reported, including these four cases and seven cases medically evacuated from other countries.[4] The first was reported in September 2014.[5] Nine of the people contracted the disease outside the US and traveled into the country, either as regular airline passengers or as medical evacuees; of those nine, two died. Two people contracted Ebola in the United States. Both were nurses who treated an Ebola patient; both recovered.[4]
Hundreds of people were tested or monitored for potential Ebola virus infection,[16] but the two nurses were the only confirmed cases of locally transmitted Ebola. Public health experts and the Obama administration opposed instituting a travel ban on Ebola endemic areas, stating that it would be ineffective and would paradoxically worsen the situation.[17]
No one who contracted Ebola while in the United States died from it. No new cases were diagnosed in the United States after Spencer was released from Bellevue Hospital on November 11, 2014.[18]
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