Liberia Declared Ebola-free

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Liberia free of the Ebola virus, as the country has had no new cases in 42 days. Last September, Liberia was seeing 400 cases a week, with hospitals full and bodies lying in the streets. A public health campaign was launched to stem the epidemic, and the last confirmed death was on 27 March. The Ebola outbreak has claimed over 11,000 lives in the region, and remains active in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
But new cases have been falling and the UN's Ebola envoy, David Nabarro, called progress against the disease in West Africa "extraordinary".

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Nigerian Peacekeeper Cured Of Ebola In Netherlands

The Hague (AFP) - A Nigerian UN peacekeeper infected with
Ebola and brought to the Netherlands for treatment has
been cured, the Dutch authorities said on Friday.
"The Nigerian patient who was admitted on December 6 has
been cured of Ebola," the Dutch public health institute RIVM
said in a statement.
The soldier was infected while working as a peacekeeper
battling the deadly disease in Liberia.
He was flown to the Netherlands at the request of the World
Health Organisation in a specially equipped plane and
treated at the university hospital in central city Utrecht.
He was the first Ebola patient to be treated in the
Netherlands and will stay at a military hospital until he can
return home, the RIVM said.
Ebola has killed more than 6,900 people, almost all of them
in west Africa.
Liberia tops the number of fatalities at 3,290 deaths but
Sierra Leone earlier this month overtook it as the country
with the most infections.
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Sierra Leone Now Has More Ebola Cases Than Liberia

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 6,331 in the three worst hit countries, with Sierra Leone overtaking Liberia as the country with the highest number of cases, World Health Organization figures showed on Monday.

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Nigeria not completely free from Ebola -Minister

The Health Minister, Dr Haliru Alhassan, has raised the
fear over a [possible] resurgence of Ebola Virus Disease in
Nigeria.
He spoke on the occasion marking the upgrading of
Federal Medical Centre , Ido Ekiti, to a Federal Teaching
Hospital and the signing of Memorandum of
Understanding between the Federal Government and Afe
Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, on Saturday.
Expressing worry over the nationwide strike embarked
upon by the Joint Health Staff Union, the minister said
Nigeria was not free from Ebola as long as there were
reported cases of the deadly virus in any part of the
world .
Alhassan, who appealed to all concerned to sustain the
leadership role of President Goodluck Jonathan in tackling
the deadly disease, said the indefinite strike action
embarked upon by JOHESU at a time when many
Nigerians would return home from abroad to celebrate
Christmas and New Year, could threaten the success
achieved

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US Company Makes Ebola T-shirt Mocking Nigeria

A company in the US has described the current Ebola outbreak as a
‘hip new craze’ and has designed a souvenir T-Shirt which mocks
Nigeria

Ebola is ravaging across West Africa leaving destruction and death in
its wake but one American company thinks the disease is a ‘hip new
craze’ and has decided to profit from it by selling a “Nigerian Ebola
souvenir tee.”
See pic after the cut

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