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Thursday 14 Jan 2016 - 20:18 Makkah mean time-4-4-1437
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Geneva (IINA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) declared here on Thursday the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus in Liberia and said all known chains of transmission have been stopped in West Africa.
"The risk of re-introduction of infection is diminishing as the virus gradually clears from the survivor population, but we still anticipate more flare-ups and must be prepared for them," Dr Bruce Aylward, WHO's special representative for the Ebola Response, said in a statement.
Liberia, which along with Sierra Leone and Guinea was an epicenter of the latest outbreak, was first declared free of the disease last May, but new cases emerged two times - forcing officials there to restart the clock.
The WHO’s announcement came 42 days, or two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus, after the last confirmed patient in Liberia tested negative twice for the deadly disease.
The deadliest outbreak in the history of the epidemic wrecked the economies and health systems of the three worst-hit West African nations after it emerged in southern Guinea in December 2013.
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