Saturday 11 April 2015

Risk of Ebola spreading to other countries appears to be falling: WHO

Health workers take temperature of boy who came in contact with woman who died of Ebola virus in Paynesville neighborhood of Monrovia By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - West Africa's Ebola epidemic still poses a threat to other countries but the risk of it spreading internationally appears to be diminishing as the areas affected shrink, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The U.N. agency declared in August 2014 that the world's worst Ebola outbreak, which began in December 2013, represented a "public health emergency of international concern" that forced health officials worldwide to shore up defences. The WHO's Emergency Committee, comprising independent experts who conferred on Thursday, was "absolutely firm" in maintaining that view, said Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO Special Representative for the Ebola Response. In a statement, the Committee said that due to better prevention and control activities across West Africa, "the overall risk of international spread appears to have further reduced since January with a decline in case incidence and geographic distribution in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea." But there was "no place for complacency" and the goal remained eliminating the deadly haemorrhagic fever.




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