
Confirmed Ebola cases in West African countries by age 2015
This statistic displays the number of Ebola cases in West African countries as of November 4, 2015, by age group. Over the course of the outbreak, there have been 1,904 confirmed cases among persons aged between 15 and 44 years in Guinea. The Ebola virus causes extremely severe hemorrhagic fever and is considered a Risk Group 4 Pathogen by the World Health Organization (WHO). As of March 2016, there were approximately