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42 days have passed with no new cases reported in the West Africa country where nearly 4,000 people died of the virus

Sierra Leone has been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organisation, prompting nationwide celebrations tinged with sadness over the 4,000 lives the virus claimed. Freetown was transformed into a giant carnival on Friday night as ecstatic crowds took to the streets of the capital in an outpouring of emotion.


Relief that the 17-month outbreak was all but over was reflected in candlelit prayers and spontaneous parties.

In a moving ceremony in Freetown on Saturday morning, the WHO’s country director, Anders Nordström, confirmed that 42 days had passed without any new cases, thereby satisfying criteria that the virus was no longer being transmitted. A speech by Yusuf Kamara, a healthcare worker who lost 16 members of his family and survived the disease himself, brought tears and a standing ovation. “For us, Ebola is not over. We need your help to treat the many, many health problems we still suffer from. And remember those who died at the hands of Ebola, and especially the children who have been affected by this outbreak,” he said

Sierra Leone’s president, Ernest Bai Koroma, has ended the state of emergency declared during the outbreak, but the country will now enter a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to make sure the virus does not return. The National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) will continue to operate until the end of the year, and the swabbing of all dead bodies for Ebola will be mandatory until June 2016.

Koroma said he was “humbled by the dedication” of 35,000 Ebola response workers “whose heroism is without parallel in the history of our country”. He praised their bravery and said the country mourned their sacrifice, adding: “The disease challenged the very foundations of our humanity.” He called on the community to halt the stigmatisation of survivors and said the focus was now on improved hygiene, healthcare and economic recovery

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/world-health-organisation-sierra-leone-ebola-free

I don't care what the WHO says. I am not going to visit that country ever again in my life. Now things will be difficult in Sierra Leone. A large number of doctors and nurses are dead, and there is no way that the government is able to fill those vacancies. Even earlier, there was an extreme shortage of physicians in Sierra Leone. Now it is going to be worse.

Tend to agree, 42 days with no new cases is not enough in my opinion. Will tend to agree with them if we get to around 30 or 90 days or just to be safe make it a year. But then again, with my luck I'll arrive there right at the start of a new outbreak.


This is the most important part. If they do not get their ducks in a row in regards to basic hygiene and health care then this is bound to happen again.

42 days is not enough.
We know that the ebola virus can be found in the semen of survivors for 6 months post recovery.
So everybody has to watch out.  :)

The Ebola virus has been found in the semen of survivors more than a year after their recovery, although the chances decline after around 3 months. In Liberia, there was a case recently when a women got infected of Ebola, after she had sex with a survivor of the disease. And remember the fact that safe sex is not very popular in Africa.

Even if Sierra Leone and Liberia have been declared Ebola free, Guinea has been not. The virus does not know national boundaries.
Until the whole region is declared Ebola-free, there can easily be another outbreak.

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Excellent news indeed! Many communities were destroyed by Ebola...

Oh come on. Declaring that doesnt really matter when there are a lot of people who died

Why not state that a cure is already a 100% percent effective?

The World Health Organization declared by press conference and official report.

Until africans don't change their ways and keep eating bush meat and their primordial traditions they will be always on the brink of disaster!!!!!!!!

I don't think that anyone will be able to change this behavior overnight. The Africans have been eating bushmeat for ages. But no one got Ebola back then. As the traditional religion was abandoned in favor of Islam and Christianity, the natives began collecting bushmeat from "no-go" or forbidden areas, and even the latest epidemic can be attributed to such incidents.

At best, it is Ebola-contained, not Ebola-free. An active epidemic can start again at any moment as long as you have unchecked reservoirs in wildlife.

Yabut, who is the WHO?

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The population is increasing very steeply in that part of the world. So obviously there will be people cutting down the forest and encroaching it. Also, the demand for bush meat means that the poachers will venture deeper and deeper in to the forest, where the game is abundant. So unfortunately for Sierra Leone, the future is not looking that bright.

42 days....did I read that right?  It only takes 42 days between infections to declare an entire country ebola free?
 

Must be a military or economic advantage for this.   :)

If someone gets infected with the Ebola virus, then he will start showing the symptoms (diarrhea, red eyes, nausea, stomach pain.etc) after one or two weeks. If no one in a region is showing any Ebola symptom for 3 continuous weeks, then that region can be considered safe. But still I don't know from where they got this 6 weeks time-frame.

You're missing the point. Nobody has reported the infection but that doesn't mean it isn't still a threat. This is Sierra Leone, not the United States. The same health standards don't apply. There are large portions of that country that don't even have reliable electricity, how are they supposed to report an infection that they might know nothing about?

I know that. But I was referring to the WHO methodology in my previous post. The WHO will declare a country as "Ebola-free" if there are no confirmed cases for 42 days (6 weeks) on continuation. I know that this methodology is not very safe, as there were multiple incidents in Sierra Leone and Liberia where the family members hid their Ebola infected relatives from the health authorities.

So I guess that means we should take the WHO ruling as a grain of salt. Its Ebola free until the next person contracts it :)

Grain of salt?!

WHO and the military created and distributed Ebola among the countries of Africa, and maybe more.



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Well... Ebola is not a very common virus. In the past 40 years or so, there has been 6 or 7 epidemics reported from the entire African continent, with most of the epidemics occurring in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ebola is not an air-borne virus, and it is spread only through body contact. So I am slightly more optimistic with the reports coming in from Sierra Leone.

'Bye bye Ebola': Sierra Leone rapper's video hits the right note

From twerking policemen to acrobatic footballers, residents rejoice in Block Jones clip celebrating end of the country’s epidemic


http://youtube.com/watch?v=YRhXoLjHruM&feature=youtu.be

Sierra Leonean rapper, Block Jones, is a master of understatement. “Ebola passed by the nation, it caused some frustration,” he sings in a music video released to mark the end of the epidemic that ravaged the country, infecting 8,704 people and killing 3,589.

The virus wiped out entire families, devastated communities and forced people to change their lives after the first case was identified in May 2014

But on Saturday the country marked 42 days since any new cases were diagnosed. This, according to the World Health Organisation, means that it is safe to declare the epidemic over.

“Thank God it’s gone, a new day has come,” raps Jones, in the song featuring the Freetown Uncut collective. The video is called Bye Bye Ebola, and it might just be the most heartwarming three minutes on the internet.

It shows staff in Ebola treatment centres, fully garbed in their protective rubber suits, dancing in empty wards. You will see policemen twerking at the checkpoints that were vital to prevent the disease’s spread of the disease.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/10/bye-bye-ebola-sierra-leone-rapper-block-jones-video

In sierra leone people at there, They are suffered by ebola from may 2014 They done many riot in their cities like Freetown and other cities But now It came to end. People in Sierra they are celebrating that now and WHO also announced as Sierra leone in free from Ebola disease. Now no shortage of docters and all.

Do you have any proof for this? Even before the epidemic, Sierra Leone had 2 to 3 doctors for every 100,000 people. That means a total of somewhere between 100 and 200 doctors to serve a population of 6 million. A large number of these doctors died as a result of the EVD, and there is no replacement for them.