WHO declares end of Ebola outbreak in West Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the end of Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa after all known chains of transmission have been stopped.
WHO’s announcement came with declaration of end disease in Liberia after no positive case was reported in last 42 days (two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus).
Liberia was worst hit in Western Africa by this deadly outbreak which has killed around 4809 people. It also had completely shattered its economy, health and education sectors.
Earlier Sierra Leone was declared free from Ebola transmission in November 2015 and followed by Guinea in December 2015. Liberia was first declared free of Ebola transmission in May 2015 but the virus had reappeared twice since then.
Ebola outbreak
- Guinea was birthplace of deadliest Ebola outbreak in history and was initially centred on country’s remote south-eastern region of Nzerekore in 2013.
- Later it had spread to its neighbouring countries Liberia and Sierra Leone and also seven other countries.
- After it began in 2013 it has killed more than 11,300 people in these three worst hit western African nations.
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