--- title: Senegal Confirms Country's First Ebola Case description: Add Senegal to the four other West African countries—Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria—with recorded cases of Ebola. canonical: https://time.com/3221727/senegal-ebola/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-29T13:38:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:47.324Z article:section: Health og:title: Senegal Confirms Country's First Ebola Case og:description: Add Senegal to the four other West African countries—Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria—with recorded cases of Ebola. og:url: https://time.com/3221727/senegal-ebola/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32c35d98b22707e7/69869e5e810bbb02d8c92e22/89001431.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 89001431 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Senegal Confirms Country's First Ebola Case twitter:description: Add Senegal to the four other West African countries—Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria—with recorded cases of Ebola. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32c35d98b22707e7/69869e5e810bbb02d8c92e22/89001431.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Senegal Confirms Country's First Ebola Case ## Video: Why Do People Fear Ebola? [Watch (HLS stream): Why Do People Fear Ebola?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/o73TUhFa.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2014-08-10. Jay Varkey, MD, Assistant Professor of Emory University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases on treating Ebola patients and the fear that goes with it._ by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Aug 29, 2014 1:38 PM UTC  Colorized transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus. Colorized transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus.Getty Images by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Aug 29, 2014 1:38 PM UTC Add Senegal to the four other West African countries—Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria—with recorded cases of Ebola. Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters Friday that a young, infected Guinean man crossed the border into Senegal, the [Associated Press](http://time.com/3221694/senegal-confirms-its-1st-case-of-ebola/) reports. Senegal closed its border to its southeastern neighbor last week over fears that the often-fatal disease might spread into the country. The World Health Organization announced Thursday that there have been 430 deaths from Ebola in Guinea alone. The United Nations agency [reported](http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014%5F08%5F28%5Febola/en/) that disease has been spreading more rapidly recently, with more than 40% of the total number of cases—3,069—occurring within the past 21 days. The WHO has created a “[roadmap](http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/ebola-roadmap/en/)” to stop the transmission of Ebola within nine months, while acknowledging that the disease could spread and infect over 20,000 people during that time. Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo recently [said](http://time.com/3169729/ebola-congo/) an Ebola outbreak has stricken that country as well, though they deny it’s connected to the one affecting West Africa. \[[_AP_](http://time.com/3221694/senegal-confirms-its-1st-case-of-ebola/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3221727/senegal-ebola/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3221727/senegal-ebola/"},"headline":"Senegal Confirms Country's First Ebola Case","datePublished":"2014-08-29T13:38:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:00:47.324Z","description":"The often-fatal disease has spread to a fifth West African country","url":"https://time.com/3221727/senegal-ebola/","keywords":["Infectious Disease","Disease","senegal"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32c35d98b22707e7/69869e5e810bbb02d8c92e22/89001431.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32c35d98b22707e7/69869e5e810bbb02d8c92e22/89001431.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"89001431","caption":"89001431","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/infectious-disease/","name":"Infectious Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3221727/senegal-ebola/","name":"Senegal Confirms Country's First Ebola Case"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Why Do People Fear Ebola?","description":"Jay Varkey, MD, Assistant Professor of Emory University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases on treating Ebola patients and the fear that goes with it.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/o73TUhFa/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-10T17:14:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/o73TUhFa.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3221727/senegal-ebola/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3221727/senegal-ebola/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```