Ebola 1997 - Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Gabon (new outbreak) - Update 11

08 January 1997 Disease Outbreak Reported A summary of the outbreak in Gabon The current outbreak in Gabon started on 13 July 1997 with the death of a 39-year-old hunter in a logging camp between the city of Ovan and Koumameyong, near Booué, Ogooué-Ivindo Province. The second case, a close friend of the hunter became ill and died in August, and the third and four deaths were in a traditional healer and his assistant who treated him.…