The UN warned that some children orphaned by the outbreak risked being “shunned”<\/div>\n
Ebola has an incubation period of 21 days, the CDC said. After two consecutive 21-day periods have passed with no new cases, a country would be able to declare an outbreak over, it said.<\/p>\n
Therefore, both Nigeria and Senegal will be able to declare their outbreaks officially over by mid-October, a CDC official said.<\/p>\n
“Although Nigeria isn’t completely out of the woods, their extensive response to a single case of Ebola shows that control is possible with rapid, focused interventions” said CDC Director Tom Frieden in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Countries throughout the region as well as Nigeria need to take rapid steps to prepare for possible cases of Ebola in order to prevent outbreaks in their country” he added.<\/p>\n
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan already declared the end of the virus in his country in a speech last week, a claim medical experts believe was premature.<\/p>\n
Ambitious target<\/strong><\/p>\nOn Tuesday the head of a new UN body set up to fight the disease urged more action within the next 60 days.<\/p>\n
“The risk of expansion is dramatic and the number of affected people is doubling,” Anthony Banbury told reporters in Ghana, where the UN’s Ebola response team is based.<\/p>\n
He said that 70% of infected people needed to be receiving treatment and 70% percent of burials should be done safely within two months.<\/p>\n
Unicef also warned on Tuesday that at least 3,700 children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone who have lost one or both parents to Ebola face being “shunned”.<\/p>\n
“Orphans are usually taken in by a member of the extended family, but in some communities the fear surrounding Ebola is becoming stronger than family ties,” Unicef’s Manuel Fontaine said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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