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Geneve – Liberia was the last country declared Ebola-free on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the two-year Ebola outbreak which has claimed over 11,000 lives across West Africa.<\/p>\n Liberia was the last country in the region to be declared Ebola-free on Thursday.<\/p>\n “The World Health Organization cautions that the three countries [Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone] remain at high risk of additional small outbreaks of Ebola, like the most recent one in Liberia,” the WHO said on Thursday.<\/p>\n “We can anticipate future flare-ups of Ebola in the coming year,” UN chief Ban Ki-moon had warned on Wednesday.<\/p>\n “Governments will need resources to help communities prevent infection, detect potential cases and respond rapidly and effectively,” Ban added.<\/p>\n Liberia was first declared free of Ebola transmission in May 2015, but the virus was re-introduced twice since then, with the latest flare-up in November.<\/p>\n It is the first time since the start of the Ebola epidemic about two years ago that all three of the hardest-hit countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – have reported zero cases for at least 42 days.<\/p>\n Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola transmission on Nov. 7 2015 and Guinea on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n \u201cDetecting and breaking every chain of transmission has been a monumental achievement,\u201d WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are now at a critical period in the Ebola epidemic as we move from managing cases and patients to managing the residual risk of new infections,\u201d added Dr. Bruce<\/p>\n Aylward, the WHO\u2019s Special Representative for Ebola Response.<\/p>\n The Ebola epidemic claimed the lives of 11,315 people and infected over 28,500. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Geneve – Liberia was the last country declared Ebola-free on Thursday. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the two-year Ebola outbreak which has claimed over 11,000 lives across West Africa. Liberia was the last country in the region to be declared Ebola-free on Thursday. “The World Health Organization cautions that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[297,298],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-ebola","tag-who"],"views":684,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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