{"id":177637,"date":"2015-12-29T08:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T08:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=177637"},"modified":"2015-12-29T08:47:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T08:47:55","slug":"guinea-to-be-declared-free-of-ebola-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/12\/guinea-to-be-declared-free-of-ebola-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea to be declared free of Ebola virus"},"content":{"rendered":"
Guinea is to be declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there.<\/p>\n
Guineans are expected to celebrate the landmark with concerts and fireworks.<\/p>\n
The disease killed more than 2,500 people in the country and a further 9,000 in Sierra Leone and Liberia.<\/p>\n
Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola in November, but new cases have emerged in Liberia, which had been declared Ebola-free in September.<\/p>\n
A country is considered free of human-to-human transmission once two 21-day incubation periods have passed since the last known case tested negative for a second time.<\/p>\n