There are a little over a year, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Ebolaas a global public health emergency. Since then, water has flowed under the bridges. After killing at least 11,300 people since the end of 2013 (the WHO’s assessment would be underestimated) and infecting 27,500 cases in West Africa, the epidemic would finally be at its twilight.
A sign that we are heading towards the epilogue of a dark series, the last patient cured of Ebola was released from the hospital where he was being treated in Sierra Leone. “This is the beginning of the end of Ebola in Sierra Leone,” Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma told AFP as he left the 34-year-old patient’s hospital in Makeni, in the capital. the east of the country.
Sierra Leone is one of the three West African countries hardest hit by the virus. Only fourteen people would still be kept in quarantine in Sierra Leone, according to the Ministry of Health.
In the other two centers of the epidemic, the situation also suggests the end of the ordeal. In Liberia, no new cases of contamination have been reported, but in Guinea, there are still new infected patients.
Last week, the WHO assured that the Ebola epidemic could be over by the end of the year if efforts to combat the virus continue.
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