The agency said moving forward, efforts must be made to rebuild crippled health care systems in the affected countries, where practices such as vaccinations for small children dropped significantly during the outbreak. But its effectiveness hasn’t been determined and medical experts have said that the outbreak was finally brought under control by educating people about how it was passed from one person to another, according to Dr. Joel Selanikio, a pediatrics professor at Georgetown University who treated patients in Sierra Leone.
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Liberia celebrates New Year with hopes high it will be declared free of Ebola transmission in mid-January, after discharging its last two patients on December 3.
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“My colleagues and I at the World Bank Group congratulate the government and people of Guinea on reaching this important milestone”.
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The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared the Ebola outbreak over in Guinea, the country where the devastating global crisis began in 2013. No new cases have been reported anywhere in the world in at least 21 days, according to WHO. A health spokesperson says since the disease started spreading past year, the state has monitored almost 300 travelers.
As per estimates released by the World Health Organization, the epidemic has taken over 11,000 lives, sickening more than 28,000 throughout 10 countries.
Researchers from The New England Journal of Medicine say they think the first person to become infected with the disease was Emile Ouamouno, a 2-year-old boy who lived in Gueckedou, a town in southern Guinea.
With Guinea declared free of the outbreak this week, Sierra Leone in the clear since November and Liberia going more than a month with no new infections, the region has much reason for New Year optimism. “This situation has shown us how much we must fight for those who are survivors”. “We hope that all the dead, and the victims of this disease will be sacrifices to the Guinean nation so that no other epidemic touches us”, said survivor Ibrahima Sow.
“The coming months will be absolutely critical”, said Bruce Aylward, MD, MPH, WHO special representative of the director-general for Ebola response. For instance, survivors of Ebola are known to report problems with their vision, and scientists will be studying whether the vision problems and other health issues are linked to Ebola itself or to something else in the community.
Guinea had the fewest Ebola cases of the three countries, but its bigger size, extensive remote areas and a stigma and distrust of health workers allowed the outbreak to persist.
“They are traumatized and continue to be stigmatized in their neighborhoods”.
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Liberia has twice declared victory over Ebola – and twice been surprised by subsequent outbreaks that have forced doctors and scientists to question what they really know about the deadly disease and its ability to spread.
