West Africa Ends 2015 Declared Ebola-free

West Africa experienced several highs and lows in 2015 in its fight against Ebola. There was elation when Liberia was declared Ebola-free in May, but defeat when it returned and claimed more victims, although the virus was quickly suppressed. Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free in November. In December, two years after a toddler died in the forested region of Guinea, the World Health Organization declared that country free of Ebola. Dr. Bruce Aylward, the WHO's special...

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