Ebola declared dead in Liberia by: Milan Hamilton

After losing more than 4,000 people to Ebola, Liberia has now been declared free of the disease by the World Health Organization (WHO). It was a horrible time. Ebola patients stood in line to get into hospitals that didn't have a bed to spare. Thousands of children in West Africa were orphaned. Burial teams roamed the streets carrying victims to crematoriums. "We went through just a horrific epidemic," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who visited the country in August. "It's a searing memory that many of us will carry with us for the rest of our lives." Something else is seared in my mind, too: the realization that smart people failed to stop this epidemic before it got so terribly out of hand. The outbreak started in March, and when I arrived six months later, the response was still clumsy.Ebola hit big cities, where people live in close quarters; the West African countries have a dangerous lack of doctors, nurses, laboratories and supplies; and it was difficult to convince people to put a halt to the tradition of washing their dead relatives before burial, which spread the virus. As those issues resolved in the late summer and fall, the CDC and others could move in and do their jobs. Gostin gives this "late, belated response" an "A." It eventually worked. Liberia has gone without a new case for 42 days, twice the maximum incubation period, which is why it's now deemed free of Ebola. 

This so great that Ebola is now declared dead in Liberia becuase now it reduces the spreading to other countries. Hopefully it will eventually die out completely. Now with the new technology, the doctors were able to do their work and cure people more quickly than before. This just shows are traveling can affect other countries. Such as the Columbian Exchange and how it affected the economies of all countries involved and even how the Europeans brought diseases with them to America. This is great news for the whole world!

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