Sierra Leone: Ebola Outbreak Monthly Update (9 September 2015)

Some features inside this issue:

• Epidemiological situation overview:
  Since the beginning of the EVD outbreak in West Africa, a total of 28 132 cases including 11 305 have been reported deaths from six West African countries namely Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal

• EVD Research Update:
  In Kambia, Sierra Leone, the detection of a new case of Ebola virus disease set in motion the first ‘ring vaccination’ use of the experimental Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone after the country had marked almost three weeks of zero cases.

• EVD Preparedness:
  WHO leads EVD preparedness efforts in the Region with priority focus in 14 countries that have been identified to be at highest risk.