The government in Guinea has blamed the virus for poor economic performance and says it has also caused people to distrust the country’s health services.
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The UN’s health agency on Tuesday declared Guinea’s Ebola outbreak over two years after it emerged, spreading death across west Africa and pushing the region’s worst-hit communities to the brink of collapse.
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In addition to the original chain of transmission, there have been 10 new small Ebola outbreaks (or “flares”) between March and November 2015. Liberia is now toward the end of a new 42-day countdown after being twice declared free of the virus earlier this year.
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The country were Ebola began has been named free of the virus exactly two years after the first death of the endemic, a two-year-old boy from Meliandou.
The Red Cross Society of Guinea will work alongside the government and partner organizations to ensure health care systems are strengthened and appropriate response mechanisms exist to cope with any future epidemics.
“Still, we must remain vigilant to stay at zero cases, and continue to support Guinea as it contends with the enormous human and economic costs of Ebola”. This situation has shown us how much we must fight for those who are survivors”, Camara said, adding, “After I got better, the hardest thing was to make people welcome me. One challenge is that after recovery and clearing the virus from the bloodstream, the virus may persist in the semen of some male survivors for as long as nine to 12 months. “They were more likely to die if infected”, UNICEF Guinea Representative Mohamed Ag Ayoya said.
“From 2013 to 2015, Guineans suffered, they lived and survived, they endured, they were stigmatised, rejected, even humiliated because of this disease, which leapt out of nowhere”.
But a top World Health Organization official cautioned Tuesday that “the coming months will be absolutely critical” in Ebola’s old hot zone.
Susan Michaels-Strasser, a nurse and professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, said the news gave relief to many as people in these countries are living in very tough conditions. More than 100 health workers lost their lives in the outbreak.
“Guinea is a blessed country”.
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Dr. Rick Brennan, a member of WHO’s Ebola response team, told The New York Times that the declaration serves as a great moment to build on the significant progress that’s been made.
