As of 18 September 2014, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone continued to report confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). These cases were reported in the following localities: Guinea (Conakry, and Macenta); Sierra Leone (Kenema, Bo, Bombali, Western Area Urban and Tonkolili); and Liberia (Montserrado, Grand Bassa, Bong, Lofa and Margibi). In total, 143 new cases (confirmed, suspected and probable) and 45 deaths attributable to EVD were reported to have occurred on 18 September 2014.
On the whole, the outbreaks in Senegal and Nigeria are pretty much contained. There has been no new confirmed case of EBV reported from Senegal since the first and only case was reported on 29 August 2014, and the last case of EBV reported by Nigeria was on 8 September 2014.