EBOLA/EVD [to 21 March 2015]
Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC); “Threat to international peace and security” (UN Security Council)

:: UN Mission Situation Reports: 16-20 March 2015

19 March 2015
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Response Efforts and Health
2. In total, 24,666 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of EVD have been reported in the three most affected countries. There have been 10,179 reported deaths.

3. WHO reported a total of 150 new confirmed EVD cases in the week to 15 March, compared with 116 in the previous week. There were 95 new confirmed cases reported in Guinea: the highest weekly total for the country in 2015. Sierra Leone reported 55 new confirmed cases over the same period: the country’s lowest weekly total since late June 2014. Liberia reported no new confirmed cases for the third consecutive week. A total of 12 districts in Guinea and Sierra Leone reported a confirmed case in the week to 15 March, all of which lie in a geographically contiguous arc in and around Conakry to the north and Freetown to the south.

4. In Guinea, from a total of 41 reported EVD deaths in the week to 15 March, over half were identified post-mortem in the community. In the week to 8 March, only 28% of confirmed cases arose from registered contacts and there were a reported 18 unsafe burials. Taken together, these indicators suggest that the outbreak in Guinea is still being driven by unknown chains of transmission.

5. In Sierra Leone, in the week to 8 March over two-thirds of confirmed cases came from registered contacts and in the week to 15 March, only 6 of 62 total EVD-confirmed deaths were identified post-mortem in the community. There was 1 reported unsafe burial over the same period. However, there are still areas where most new cases arise from unknown chains of transmission. Kambia, a district north of Freetown on the border with the Guinean prefecture of Forécariah, reported 7 new cases in the week to 8 March, 5 of which came from post-mortem testing of people who had died in the community and who were not known to be contacts of a previous case.

6. 11 new health worker infections were reported in the week to 15 March: 4 in Guinea (3 in Conakry and 1 in Forécariah) and 7 in Sierra Leone (4 in Bombali, and 3 in Port Loko). This brings the total number of health worker infections reported across the three most-affected countries since the start of the outbreak to 852, with 492 deaths…
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