Friday, November 14, 2014

Press Release- CDC Releases New Reports on Ebola Cases in Liberia and the United States

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 CDC Releases New Reports on Ebola Cases in Liberia and the United States

Progress in some Liberian counties but multiple outbreaks continue throughout country

 

The effort to contain the Ebola epidemic in Liberia is showing preliminary signs of progress in some counties, but maintaining and extending these trends will require sustained efforts, according to three early-release articles in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on November 14. The three reports are among six MMWR articles on Ebola released by CDC today.

One of the six reports provides an overview of the complex and rapidly changing situation in Liberia. There is widespread distribution of disease in urban and rural settings. Containing the epidemic will require more intensive efforts to identify new cases and perform contact tracing in the densely populated capital city of Monrovia while rapidly containing outbreaks in hard-to-reach and newly affected areas.

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