{"id":115554,"date":"2015-05-12T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=115554"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T12:28:25","slug":"liberia-holds-party-after-beating-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=115554","title":{"rendered":"Liberia holds party after ‘beating’ Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberia’s held an official celebration of the country being declared free of Ebola.<\/p>\n

The government and the World Health Organisation made the announcement on Saturday after 42 days without a new case.<\/p>\n

During Liberia’s year-long epidemic 4,700 people died – more than any other country.<\/p>\n

A public holiday was declared so pupils and workers could celebrate the virus being brought under control on Monday.<\/p>\n

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The outbreak still isn’t over in neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n

Liberians took to the streets with signs and posters with messages like “We will always overcome” and “We are the winner”.<\/p>\n

Others danced, played drums and waved flags in celebration.<\/p>\n

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014 and quickly became the deadliest outbreak since the disease was discovered in 1976.<\/p>\n

It’s thought 26,720 cases have been reported and 11,079 people have died from it in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Mali and the US.<\/p>\n

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The latest outbreak has killed five times more people than all the other known outbreaks put together.<\/p>\n

The disease causes fever, diarrhoea, rashes, bleeding and vomiting. A year ago, aid workers described the outbreak as out of control.<\/p>\n

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In December, the World Health Organisation found dozens of bodies in a remote part of Sierra Leone, raising fears that the full scale of the Ebola outbreak may have been underreported.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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