Liberia now officially Ebola-free

[Tender Branson]

The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic.

“The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over,” the W.H.O. said in a statement read by Dr. Alex Gasasira, the group’s representative to Liberia, in a packed conference room at the emergency command center in Monrovia, the capital.

Just before Dr. Gasasira’s statement, Luke Bawo, an epidemiologist, showed a map depicting all of Liberia in green with the number 42 superimposed on it. This represented that two maximum incubation periods of the virus, a total of 42 days, had passed since the safe burial of the last person confirmed to have had Ebola in the country, fulfilling the official criteria for concluding that human-to-human transmission of the virus has ended.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/world/africa/liberia-is-free-of-ebola-world-health-organization-declares.html

[Beet]

Someone can still bring it into the country from Guinea at any time. It'll be a bigger milestone when the outbreak as a whole is declared over.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Someone can still bring it into the country from Guinea at any time. It'll be a bigger milestone when the outbreak as a whole is declared over.

So you admit you were wrong in saying that millions would die?

[Beet]

Someone can still bring it into the country from Guinea at any time. It'll be a bigger milestone when the outbreak as a whole is declared over.

So you admit you were wrong in saying that millions would die?

I never said the outbreak would be declared over, I just said it would be a bigger milestone if it were declared over. But clearly, millions could die before that, if not billions.