Expanded Ebola Historical Death Time Series

Expanded Ebola Historical Death Time Series

Normalized outbreak series: 17 Series plotted on aligned-100 charts: 9

Plotted anchor dates:

• DRC/Zaire 1976 Yambuku: 1976-09-26 13:55; max observed deaths 248; points 51
• DRC 1995 Kikwit: 1995-05-12 06:16; max observed deaths 236; points 192
• Uganda 2000 Gulu/SUDV: 2000-11-10 14:35; max observed deaths 172; points 19
• Republic of Congo 2003: 2003-03-10 01:25; max observed deaths 129; points 4
• Guinea 2014: 2014-04-09 12:18; max observed deaths 2157; points 213
• Sierra Leone 2014: 2014-07-01 00:07; max observed deaths 3786; points 216
• Liberia 2014: 2014-07-10 21:28; max observed deaths 4181; points 173
• DRC 2018-2020 North Kivu/Ituri: 2018-09-22 00:00; max observed deaths 2280; points 581
• DRC 2026 Bundibugyo: 2026-05-16 23:12; max observed deaths 223; points 7

Series retained but not plotted because they never reached 100 observed deaths:

• Uganda 2022 SUDV: max observed deaths 77; points 4
• DRC 2018 Equateur: max observed deaths 33; points 16
• DRC 2020 Equateur: max observed deaths 20; points 8
• Nigeria 2014: max observed deaths 8; points 29
• Guinea 2021: max observed deaths 7; points 24
• Mali 2014: max observed deaths 6; points 14
• DRC 2021 North Kivu: max observed deaths 5; points 20
• Senegal 2014: max observed deaths 0; points 15

Main source families:

• HDX/OCHA ROWCA 2014 national and subnational West Africa time series.
• HDX DRC North Kivu/Ituri national figures.
• reconhub/outbreaks Kikwit 1995 daily deaths from Khan et al.
• Camacho et al. 1976 Zaire supplementary line list.
• WHO Disease Outbreak News for Uganda 2000, Uganda 2022, and Republic of Congo 2003 sparse points.