Ebola re-emerged in Liberia last week, almost two months after it was declared free of the virus, while neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone are still struggling to eliminate it.
In August 2014, the WHO declared it a public health emergency of worldwide concern. A press release recalled scenes from the worst of the crisis, including “gates locked at overflowing treatment centers, patients dying on the hospital grounds”, before extolling...
Abbas Dulleh-AP Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in an area where a 17-year old boy died from the virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on June 30, 2015.