The World Health Organization declared Africa’s largest country by population Nigeria “Ebola-free” on Monday, a sign of how easily the virus could have been contained had other West African countries acted as swiftly as Nigeria did.
There haven’t been any cases of Ebola in 42 days,
said WHO Country Representative Rui Gama Vaz in a news conference in
Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. “The last chain of transmission has
been broken. The disease is gone,” said Dr. Vaz. “This is a spectacular
story, that Ebola can be defeated.”
A different story has been
unfolding in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. More than 4,500 people
are known to have died from the disease in those countries, the WHO
says.
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