One of the world’s deadliest outbreak in the history which hit west African Nations with bodies piled up in the streets and hospitals overwhelmed with hundreds of new cases a week. The feared tropical virus brought down the economies and health systems in the 3 most hit African nations which are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Finally, Liberia has been declared Ebola free on Jan. 14, 2016, which brought a relief in all west African nations.
A health worker takes a man’s temperature, center, before his is allowed to enter into a government building, with a message, right, reading ‘Kindly wash your hands before entering’ the building in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. The World Health Organization declared an end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever on Thursday after no new cases emerged in Liberia, though health officials warn that it will be several more months before the world is considered free of the disease that claimed more than 11,300 lives over two years. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 file photo, Nine-year-old Nowa Paye is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia. The World Health Organization says there were no Ebola cases reported last week – the first time an entire week has passed without any new confirmed patients since the devastating outbreak began last March. The U.N. health agency said in a report issued Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015 that all contacts of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone have now been followed for 21 days without falling sick, suggesting the country might soon be free of the disease. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
A unidentified family member, right, of a 10-year old boy that contracted Ebola, has her temperature measured by a health worker before entering the Ebola clinic were the child is being treated on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. Health authorities are reporting one confirmed Ebola case, a 10-year boy who is currently being attended to at the treatment center on the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital.(AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the region can expect sporadic cases in the coming year but added “we also expect the potential and frequency of those flare-ups to decrease over time”. (AFP)
