Maps in the News: Tracking the Ebola Virus
The Ebola virus outbreak in
Africa is believed to be the worst in history according to the World Health
Organization, and doctors from the Center for Disease Control believe it could
take months to stop the epidemic. The
World Health Organization believes that the virus has infected 1,323 people,
starting in Guinea and spreading to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. Both agencies have published maps showing the
location of the deadly virus.
The World Health
Organization features a gallery of maps related to the Ebola outbreak on its
Web page. The top map (above, click to
enlarge) shows the locations of reported Ebola outbreaks in humans and animals
as of 2009. The maps also include countries
that have had cases of Ebola in humans and animals through 2014 and a map of
laboratories involved in researching a vaccine for the disease, including the
Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Center for DiseaseControl (CDC) published the second map above of the African countries affected
by the latest outbreak as of July 20.
The map shows areas of confirmed and suspected cases and Ebola treatment
centers and laboratories. The CDC Web
page also includes news updates and statistics of cases and deaths from the
disease.
The Aljazeera News Agency
published a map (above) created by ESRI and National Geographic using GIS
mapping technology to show the location of confirmed and suspected cases. And CNN published a map showing the number of
weekly international flights from countries hit by Ebola (above) as fears grow
about the transmission of the disease.
For more information about
these maps, please contact the GIS Research and Map Collection in Bracken
Library at 765-285-1097.
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