Ebola 1996 - Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Gabon (new outbreak) - Update 7

06 December 1996 Disease Outbreak Reported The patient who died on 5 November 1996 in a Libreville hospital was retrospectively identified as the contact of the Gabonese physician with Ebola fever who went to South Africa for medical care. No further cases have been detected among the 201 contacts traced to this patient. Surveillance of the contacts ended on 27 November. The total number of cases reported since the outbreak started remain at 27 of which 19 were fatal.…