WHO Declares Liberia Ebola-Free For Second Time; Nation Enters 90-Day Intense Surveillance Period

Agence France-Presse: Liberia declared free of Ebola — again: WHO
“The World Health Organization on Thursday announced that Liberia, recently ravaged by Ebola, was free of the virus, 42 days after the last confirmed case passed a second negative test. … The WHO, which had previously declared Liberia Ebola-free in May only to see the deadly virus resurface six weeks later, said the country had now entered a 90-day period of heightened surveillance…” (9/3).

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