The 42-day countdown to being declared Ebola free for a
third time began on Thursday, Dec 3, after Liberia released last
two known cases. The
patients, a father and a younger brother of a 15-year-old boy who died
on November 23, were discharged from a treatment unit (ETU) in the
capital
Monrovia.
The country was first declared free of
human-to-human transmission in May, only to see the fever resurface six
weeks later, and officially credited with beating the epidemic for a
second time in September.
Speaking to state Radio, Tolbert Nyensuah, head of the country's Ebola response said,
"As far as we know (there
is) no case in the ETUs in the entire republic of Liberia,"
"We also know that there is no new known transmission as of today,
based on our epidemiological investigations." Nyesuah added.
Nyensuah
said 165 potential contacts of the family -- 34 of them high-risk --
are going into the third week of the 21-day observation period, with
none showing signs of illness.
Liberia was the last country
affected by the Ebola outbreak, with Sierra Leone
declared free of transmission in November and Guinea's last known case
recovering two weeks ago.
The patients' recovery triggered a
42-day countdown -- twice the incubation period of the virus -- before
Liberia can be declared free of transmission for a third time.
Ebola
has left more than 11,300 people dead since December 2013 in its worst
ever outbreak. Liberia has registered almost 10,700 cases and more than
4,800 deaths.
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