Ebola death reported in Sierra Leone … right after WHO declares Ebola outbreak ‘over’
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, January 23, 2016
The deadly outbreak of Ebola in Africa has officially been declared over in most of the countries where it was ravaging the population. One of those was Sierra Leone.
In fact, that designation came just a few days ago. And within a day of the government making the announcement, someone else died from the Ebola virus.
As reported by the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) and the BBC, officials confirmed the death just hours after the West Africa outbreak was declared over.
“Today, WHO declares the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and says all known chains of transmission have been stopped in West Africa,” the UN said in a Jan. 14 press release. “But the Organization says the job is not over, more flare-ups are expected and that strong surveillance and response systems will be critical in the months to come.
“Liberia was first declared free of Ebola transmission in May 2015, but the virus was re-introduced twice since then, with the latest flare-up in November,” the press release continued. “Today’s announcement comes 42 days (two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus) after the last confirmed patient in Liberia tested negative for the disease 2 times.”
Sierra Leone was declared virus-free Nov. 7. The region as a whole was cleared after Liberia made its recent announcement, the BBC noted. Tests on someone who died in the northern part of the country came back positive, a spokesman for an Ebola test center told the British news agency. The spokesman, Sidi Yahya Tunis, said the patient died in the Tonkolili district, where he had traveled from Kambia, close to the Guinea border.
‘Chains hard to break’
More flare-ups are expected, officials noted.
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