A recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is over, the United Nations health agency today said, while adding that enhanced surveillance for the virus continues. The announcement comes 42 days since the last confirmed Ebola patient in the affected Bas-Uélé province tested negative for the disease for the second time. “With the end of this epidemic, DRC has once again proved to the world that we can…
Disinfecting aprons and boots at an Ebola treatment unit in Port Loko, Sierra Leone.
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Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (right), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), speaks to journalists at the entrance to the Donka Ebola Management Centre in Conakry.
UN Photo / Martine Perret
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