World Health Organization Declares End of Ebola Virus in Guinea

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Republic of Guinea Ebola-free today.

"Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus disease tested negative for the second time," WHO said in a statement. "Guinea now enters a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to ensure that any new cases are identified quickly before they can spread to other people.”

This would be the second such declaration from the country at the epicenter of the world's worst outbreak of the disease.

The WHO had previously announced Guinea was free of transmission in December, after 42 days had passed without a positive test.

publish - By BRIAN MCBRIDEJun 1, 2016,

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