Guinea Ebola outbreak is over, WHO declares

The UN's health agency on Tuesday declared Guinea's Ebola outbreak over two years after it emerged, spreading death across west Africa and pushing the region's worst-hit communities to the brink of collapse. “Today the World Health Organization (WHO) declares the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea,” the UN agency said in a statement in Geneva. The fever spread stealthily and terrifyingly from December 2013, striking two neighbouring countries, Sierra Leone and Liberia, with sporadic cases also in Mali, Nigeria and Senegal.

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Guinea Ebola outbreak is over, WHO declares