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Table 1 Distribution of Cases, Deaths, Contacts, and Date declared Ebola-free

From: Managing emerging transnational public health security threats: lessons learned from the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak

Country

Cases

Deaths

Case-fatality Rate (%)

HCW Cases

HCW Deaths

Contacts

Date first Ebola-Freea

Widely affected

 Guinea

3811

2543

66.7

187

94

TMTC

December 29, 2015

 Sierra Leone

14,124

3956

28.0

303

221

TMTC

November 7, 2015

 Liberia

10,675

4809

45.0

378

192

TMTC

May 9, 2015

Limited transmission

 Italy

1

0

0.0

1

0

19 [18]

July 20, 2015

 Mali

8

6

75.0

2

2

433 [38]

January 18, 2015

 Nigeria

20

8

40.0

0

0

891 [22]

October 20, 2014

 Senegal

1

0

0.0

0

0

74 [39]

October 17, 2014

 Spain

1

0

0.0

1

0

83 [17]

December 2, 2014

 United Kingdom

1

0

0.0

1

0

55 [8] (+ 177 airplane)

March 10, 2015

 United States

4

1

25.0

3

0

177 [40]

December 20, 2014

  1. aEach of the widely-affected countries was declared Ebola-free and subsequently had a small number of newly detected cases. The first date of being declared Ebola-free is a reasonable marker of when the outbreak was controlled in that country
  2. HCW – Healthcare worker
  3. TMTC – Too many to count