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- World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared Sierra Leone free of Ebola at a press conference in Freetown on Saturday after the country marked 42 days with no new case of the virus, the official indicator for being considered free of the outbreak.
- Liberia passed that landmark in May, while Guinea, the third West African country at the epicenter of the outbreak, is still struggling to completely eradicate the virus. It should be noted that the Ebola outbreak killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa since December 2013, including nearly 4,000 Sierra Leoneans.
Ebola Outbreak
- Ebola outbreak is considered as most deadliest widespread epidemic in history and it caused significant loss of life in the West African nations of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, with minor outbreaks elsewhere.
- Ebola virus disease was first described in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo; this is the 26th outbreak in history and the first to occur in the West African subcontinent.
- As per WHO estimates, the deadly epidemic has infected more than 28,600 people across the three hardest-hit West African nations and has claimed 11,300 lives since December 2013. Liberia was worst hit among the western African nations in this outbreak.
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