Ebola virus disease in Spain recuperation from her illness. The WHO declared Spain Ebola-free on 2 December, 42 days after Teresa Romero was shown to be free of Ebola on 21 October. In July 2018, a Spanish team from the in Madrid announced the discovery of an antibody and the development of a prototype vaccine against five strains of Ebola, including the most common and deadliest. Ebola virus disease in Spain In 2014, Ebola virus disease in Spain occurred due to two patients with cases of the disease contracted during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa; they were medically evacuated. A failure in infection
2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak 1976, 1977 and 2014) occurring in former province of Équateur, of which the current Équateur province forms part. The most recent prior outbreak occurred in the northern Congo in 2017, with eight confirmed or probable cases including four deaths. The DRC regulatory authorities approved use of the experimental rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, but logistical issues delayed implementation until the outbreak was already under control. DRC lags behind the rest of Africa in health expenditures, at Intl$ 32 per head in 2014. Shortly before the first cases of the 2018 Ebola outbreak, the country experienced a widespread cholera epidemic (June 2017 – spring