The World Health Organization
(WHO) has declared Liberia Ebola free for the second time this year.
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| a corpse killed by Ebola being dragged into a van |
The new declaration was made on
Thursday, September 3, 2015, 42 days after the last confirmed case passed the
second negative test.
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| Members of a Liberian Red Cross burial team, under contract from the Liberian Ministry of Health, removing the body of suspected Ebola victim. |
After thousands have died, Ebola is
finally over in Liberia.
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| A doctor being prepared before attending to an Ebola victim |
“WHO declares Liberia free of Ebola
virus transmission in the human population,”
the UN health agency said in a statement.
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| Liberia's
last known Ebola patient Beatrice Yardolo (in yellow) arrives for a
ceremony at the Chinese Ebola treatment unit, where she was treated, in
Monrovia, Liberia, March 5, 2015.
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Liberia had earlier been declared
free of Ebola in May but the disease made a comeback six weeks later
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