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Ebola: first week without a new case of disease
08.10.2015 09:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
After the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a week ago for the first time that the prospect of an end to Ebola could be drawing nearer, a whole week has passed in West Africa without any new cases of the killer virus, UN Radio says referring to the WHO report.
However, at same time, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that there is still a considerable risk of transmission, even despite the situation is now potentially very promising.
It is to be admitted, up to now the Ebola outbreak has already killed nearly 11,300 people and infected nearly 28,500 since 2013, in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
It is to be mentioned, the World Health Organization (WHO) announcement is significant because its the first time since Mar last year that a whole week has passed without any new cases of Ebola in the West Africa region.
Nonetheless, the UN health agency says that the low number of cases in recent months, and the fact that infections have been confined to small areas of western Guinea and Sierra Leone, mean that it can now push to eradicate Ebola once and for all.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, Ebola has killed more 11,300 people and infected more than 28 400 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
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