WHO declares Liberia Ebola free

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MRV02. Monrovia (Liberia), 15/10/2014.- (FILE) A file picture dated 15 October 2014 shows a Liberian ambulance team transport the 70-year old Francis Konneh, a suspected Ebola patient from the township of West point in Monrovia, Liberia. Liberia is declared free from Ebola on 09 April 2015 after 42 days without a new case, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres reported, but urged vigilance until the worst-ever recorded outbreak of the virus is extinguished in neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone. The last patient in Liberia died on 27 March 2015, and by 09 April 2015 the nation reaches the official World Health Organization (WHO) standard of 42 days without a new Ebola case. A total of 10,980 people have been killed and more than 26,500 people were infected by Ebola disease since the outbreak erupted in a remote area of Guinea in December 2013, according to WHO. (República Guinea) EFE/EPA/AHMED JALLANZO

The World Health Organisation on Saturday declared Liberia free of Ebola after no new cases were reported for 42 days, twice the virus’ incubation period.

The last Ebola patient in Liberia died on March 27, WHO said in a statement.
Some 11,020 people were killed in the outbreak, which started in Guinea in December 2013 as more than 26,000 were infected.

The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with the blood or other bodily fluids of an infected person and the fatality rate is estimated to be between 50 and 80 per cent.
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Liberia was hard-hit by the outbreak due to a lack of health services.
Scientists and doctors are beginning to study the long-term effects of Ebola on the body, as survivors have reported muscle and joint pain as well as eyesight problems months after being declared cured.

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