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Binani—AFP/Getty Images People stand under a banner reading in French
"Ebola - All together for victory" during a concert gathering artists
from across Africa to celebrate Guinea reaching the final stages of the battle
with the deadly Ebola epidemic on Sept. 26, 2015 in Conakry.
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This is the first Ebola-free week since
March 2014
Last week marked the
first week of no new Ebola cases worldwide since the outbreak began in March
2014, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday. While the news is
encouraging, there are still hundreds of contacts who are undergoing followup
check-ins to make sure they stay healthy and the agency says the risk of
transmission remains high.
Time Magazine report continues:
“Case
incidence has remained below 10 confirmed cases per week for 11 consecutive
weeks,” the WHO writes in a statement. “Over the same period, transmission of
the virus has been geographically confined to several small areas in western
Guinea and Sierra Leone, marking a transition to a distinct, third phase of the
epidemic.”
For a country to be
declared Ebola-free, it must go 42 days without reporting a new case of the
disease. The most recent case numbers from the WHO show that since the
beginning of the outbreak there have been a total of 28,421 people who have
been infected in the hardest hit countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia
since the start of the outbreak. Among those infected, a total of 11,297 people
have died.
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