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ASSOCIATED PRESS by JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH March 5, 2015
MONROVIA -- Liberia released its last Ebola patient, a 58-year old English teacher, from a treatment center in the capital on Thursday, beginning its countdown to being declared Ebola free.
"I am one of the happiest human beings today on earth because it was not easy going through this situation and coming out alive," Beatrice Yardolo told The Associated Press after her release.
...The St. Paul's Bridge community where she resides and teaches had become the last "hotspot" for Ebola cases in Monrovia, according to Tolbert Nyenswah, Assistant Health Minister and head of the country's Ebola response.
There are no other confirmed cases of Ebola in the country, and as such Liberia can begin to count up to 42 days to be declared Ebola free in keeping with World Health Organization protocols and standards, Nyenswah said Wednesday. He challenged all Liberians to commit themselves to achieving "zero Ebola infections" by rigidly abiding by the anti-Ebola regulations.
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Should the world still be worried about Ebola?
THE TELEGRAPH by Colin Freeman March 6, 2015
Liberia released its last current Ebola patient from hospital on Thursday, marking the West African nation's unexpected transition from critical-list patient to international poster boy for disease control. When the outbreak first started spiralling out of control last summer, it was there that aid agencies feared the worst - the virus having devastated a health system that was still recovering from a 14-year-civil war.
Now, to everyone's relief - and surprise - the nation of four million has confounded the apocalyptic predictions of deaths running into hundreds of thousands, and of the possible collapse of the Liberian government itself....So is it time for the world's aid agencies to relax, and congratulate themselves on a job well done?
No, is their basic answer. For one thing, the absence of any documented new cases in Liberia does not mean that other cases aren't out there unreported. And for another, Ebola is still prevalent in neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone, where new cases are still emerging all the time, albeit at rates much reduced from last year....
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11453327/Should-the-world-still-be-worried-about-Ebola.html