• Last ebola patient discharged in Liberia - no new cases in a week.
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[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/81415000/jpg/_81415791_54613a8c-126f-41af-b662-2ab18aa67c31.jpg[/img] [quote][B]Liberia has released its last Ebola patient after going a week without any new cases of the virus, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). [/B]Beatrice Yardolo, 58, left a Chinese-run treatment centre in the capital Monrovia after two weeks of treatment. Nearly 10,000 people have died from Ebola, the vast majority in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. WHO officials say there were 132 new cases in Guinea and Sierra Leone in the week to 1 March. It is the first time since May 2014 that Liberia has had no new cases of the virus, the officials added. Ms Yardolo, an English teacher, said she was "one of the happiest persons on earth" as she headed home from the treatment centre in Monrovia's Paynesville district. She was the last patient undergoing treatment for the disease in Liberia.[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31744616[/url]
This is great news, hope it keeps that way.
I like how once it was cured in the west it virtually disappeared from all media
[QUOTE=Whyt546;47272477]I like how once it was cured in the west it virtually disappeared from all media[/QUOTE] Ebola cured? Are you daft?
[QUOTE=Pat4ever;47272812]Ebola cured? Are you daft?[/QUOTE] I think what he meant is that no new cases from this outbreak appeared in the West. Despite his poor phrasing, he has a good point. The media basically stopped caring about the outbreak once white people stopped falling sick and it went back to being a solely African problem.
Part of the reason for the media diedown is that the disease began to die down too. Around about the time reporting stopped was when the disease came under control, and also when it began to decline in Liberia.
[QUOTE=Deng;47272991]Part of the reason for the media diedown is that the disease began to die down too. Around about the time reporting stopped was when the disease came under control, and also when it began to decline in Liberia.[/QUOTE] That's true as well, I guess.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;47272849]I think what he meant is that no new cases from this outbreak appeared in the West. Despite his poor phrasing, he has a good point. The media basically stopped caring about the outbreak once white people stopped falling sick and it went back to being a solely African problem.[/QUOTE] Ferguson cured Ebola
[QUOTE=Pat4ever;47272812]Ebola cured? Are you daft?[/QUOTE] Alright, I admit cured was an awful word. I meant it was contained and handled so that it stopped spreading and ceased to become a threat. I was on break at work and was using my phone.
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