The Long Road -- Tracing Contacts -- Strengthening Health Care and Preventing Infections -- Protecting Borders -- How CDC is Protecting our Borders -- Communicating & Educating -- Overcoming Challenges -- Moving Forward -- CDC’s Response to Ebola: March 2014 –July 2015.

The 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the first in history. The first case was reported in Guinea in March 2014, and the disease spread in the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Over the span of a year, the Ebola epidemic has caused more than ten times as many cases of Ebola than the combined total of all those reported in previous Ebola outbreaks. As the outbreak became more widespread, travel-associated cases appeared in Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, and even countries outside Africa, including the United States.

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