Sierra Leone Celebrates End Of Ebola Epidemic

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Source: Medical Daily from Reuters

Residents of Sierra Leone's capital held a candlelit vigil and celebrations to mark the end of an Ebola epidemic that has killed almost 4,000 people including more than 220 health workers since it began last year.

Following 42 days with no new cases, the West African nation's epidemic was declared over on Saturday at a ceremony attended by President Ernest Bai Koroma and U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) representative Anders Nordstrom.

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Ebola has killed more than 11,300 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since the epidemic was announced in March 2014 and about 28,500 were infected, according to WHO data. SierraLeone's death toll was 3,955 people.

Liberia was declared free of Ebola on Sept. 3, while a handful of cases remain in Guinea...(more at link)

Read more: http://www.medicaldaily.com/sierra-leone-celebrates-end-ebola-epidemic-360740

[uppityperson]

1. Kick

[Skittles]

2. this is OUTSTANDING

[Judi Lynn]

3. Hope this is the end of Ebola for Sierra Leone. The suffering has been unbearable. n/t