The worst epidemic of Ebola hemorrhagic fever that West Africa has known finally running out of steam? In any case, this is what the medical authorities are hoping for, who have just recorded the first week without notification of a new case since … March 2014.
The epidemic has already killed more than 11,000 people in Sierra-Leone, Guinea and Liberia and 500 people suspected of having had dangerous contact with sick people are still under surveillance in Guinea, which makes believe the World Organization (WHO) that the Ebola outbreak is not yet over and constitutes “still a public health emergency of international concern“.
For its part, Sierra Leone has just recorded its third week without a new case of hemorrhagic fever. And Liberia was declared free from Ebola transmission after 42 days with no new cases. This is the second time that the country has experienced a long truce. The first was interrupted by a new outbreak of fever last June.
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