Disease

Ebola Outbreak - Update

WHO officially declared that the Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over but warns against the possibility of infected people coming in from Guinea and Sierra Leone, where the outbreak still persists.

"Forty-two days have passed since the last laboratory-confirmed case was buried on 28 March 2015. The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over," WHO says in an official statement.

The agency called the breakthrough a "monumental achievement" for Liberia, which is the hardest hit country from the recent Ebola outbreak. At the peak of the outbreak in August and September 2014, up to 400 new cases were being reported every week.

As of May 6, there have been a total of 10,564 total cases of Ebola in Liberia, with 4,716 confirmed deaths. Guinea records 3,592 cases and 2,387 deaths. Sierra Leone has the most number of reported cases - 12,492, with 3,904 confirmed deaths.