| I-MAG STS |
| Generally, what gets tallied during an epidemic are (1) how many deaths and (2) how many cases |
| usually by country or sometimes by sub-country. For both deaths and cases the tallies |
| can include (A) confirmed by a laboratory; (B) confirmed by reverse transcription polymerase chain |
| reaction (RT-PCR); (C) diagnosed by a physician or (D) suspected. There are currently five known |
| Ebola virus strains: Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Tai Forest and Reston (no damage to humans yet). |
| What does NOT get tallied is how many health care workers participated and for how many days. |
| Nor is there much effort to follow up with survivors or to indicate what happens to orphans. |
| Currently, there is little or no effort to test human DNA to see if there is any genetic factor that |
| might influence the chance of a contact becoming infected or an infected person not dying. |
| The 2018 Ebola outbreak was in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| The 2019 Ebola outbreak was in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo - 1200 kilometers away |
| The 2020 Ebola outbreak was in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| For periodic estimates of the Ebola 2018 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo click here |
| Bar charts of the Ebola 2018 outbreak cases and deaths click here |
| For a map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo showing Equateur Province the epicenter of Ebola 2018 click here |
| For a detailed map of Equateur Province the epicenter of the Ebola 2018 outbreak click here |
| For periodic estimates of the Ebola 2019 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo click here |
| Bar charts of the Ebola 2019 outbreak cases and deaths click here |
| For a map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo showing the provinces at the epicenter of Ebola 2019 click here |
| For a detailed map of provinces at the epicenter of the Ebola 2019 outbreak click here |
| For periodic estimates of the Ebola 2020 eastern epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo click here |
| Bar charts of the Ebola 2020 eastern (continuation of 2019 outbreak) cases and deaths click here |
| For periodic estimates of the Ebola 2020 western epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo click here |
| Bar charts of the Ebola 2020 western outbreak cases and deaths click here |
| Measles by country - 2019 - world-wide click here |
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