End of Ebola transmission in Sierra Leone

In another update from the WHO, researchers and doctors in Sierra Leone are finding that parents are incredibly reluctant to bring their children to doctors, which could mean that the last couple of cases in the country are understated.

Adama Sankoh, 35, responded well to treatment and received her second negative test result on Sunday before her release the following day, which was marked by a ceremony attended by President Ernest Koroma.

If Sierra Leone is declared free from of Ebola the only country left which still carries a threat of the disease will be Guinea.

With no new cases reported in two weeks, Sierra Leone joins neighbouring Liberia in the countdown to being declared Ebola-free, with Guinea the only country where people are still falling sick with the deadly tropical fever.

Steve Gaoijia Coordinator at the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) said the discharge of the last ebola patient was an indication of how far the country had come in a coordinated effort from community level to global level support to fight a common enemy.

Adama Sankoh, 40, center, who contracted Ebola after her son died from the disease late last month stands with health officials the moment after she was discharged. They will continue to be monitored until the end of the week in case they develop symptoms. That is twice the maximum incubation period of the virus. We are fervently hoping that our cousins there will make the same progress as we have…

In this photo taken Thursday, August 13, 2015, a billboard advises people how to keep free of Ebola, in a shanty town on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone, as people in the nearby village of Massessehbeh are finally releas…

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into dealing with the Ebola outbreak.

In early August, WHO gathered experts in Sierra Leone who concluded that more needs to be done to provide better care plans for survivors, and more research and specialist help is needed. She famous that Liberia’s health-care system is damaged and lots of survivors lack operating water and electrical energy of their houses, making their restoration extra arduous than that of survivors within the West. The President of Sierra Leone was at the celebrations, as was Vanessa Wolfman, the local worldwide Medical Corps’ Emergency Medical Director.

“We can get people in, isolate them from other community members, do rapid testing and get them back home as soon as possible”, she added.

Closer than ever to being declared Ebola-free, the affected countries are taking grim stock of the devastation wrought on their economies as key mining and agricultural activities ground to a halt.