The World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 january 2016 declared Liberia free of Ebola, marking the end of the outbreak in West Africa. . But there is need to continued vigilance, warning that there was a significant risk of flare-ups. That’s because there is still ongoing risk of re-emergence of the disease because of persistence of the virus in a proportion of survivors specially in there semens,” .
The outbreak in West Africa was by far the largest Ebola on record and the only one to have become a full-fledged epidemic. More than 28,500 people were sickened by the virus, and 11,315 died since the outbreak began in a remote Guinean village in December 2013. At the height of the epidemic there were hundreds of infections every day, and patients died in front of overfilled treatment centers that had shut their doors. “Detecting and breaking every chain of transmission has been a monumental achievement,” Margaret Chan, director-general of WHO, said in a press statement.
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