Liberia Ebola Is Back In Liberia

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Ebola Is Back In Liberia: Country Reports New Cases Of Deadly Disease

It just keeps on coming back. Liberia reports new cases of Ebola virus in the country right before its people are about to celebrate freedom from the deadly disease.

On Friday, Liberia announced that the last batch of suspected Ebola contacts has completed the surveillance, which sprang hope that the country is on its way to totally eradicating the disease.

Now the virus is back and it has now, more than ever, dampened the spirits of Liberians.

For a country to be declared free of Ebola, the World Health Organization says it has to undergo 42 days without a single report of a new infection. For Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, this has been a constant struggle ever since the virus emerged in March 2014, killing more than 11,300 individuals.

Liberians were almost at the pinnacle of success for the third time, but with the rise of the newly detected cases, the prognosis for the country suddenly turned bleak once more.

A massive outbreak is unlikely because the government and international health groups have already formulated enhanced ways for detection, prevention and response. However, patients walking through hospital corridors or interacting within local communities are still of great possibility to pass on the disease. Such situation may continue to transcend for months and years to come.

In fact, the government of Ebola-stricken countries are currently in the midst of acknowledging that it will keep on stashing funds and manpower to drive away a deadly virus that just keeps on coming back.

"'Ebola-free,' or not 'Ebola-free' – we're going to be living with Ebola for a long time," said James Dorbor Jallah, national coordinator of Liberia's Ebola Task Force.

Before the latest reemergence, the last who died in Liberia due to Ebola was 15-year-old Nathan Gbotoe. At present, experts are performing genetic sequencing to identify how he contracted the virus, says Francis Kateh, the chief medical officer of Liberia.

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[Tero]

It looks like a good portion of the country will be immune at some point. By then a working vaccine will be available. Those with immunity can work in quarantine of the infected.

[Jason]

Scumple keeps praying at the altar of disease and pestilence for armageddon. I've tried telling him the world has moved on. It's soon to be 2016 and John Q. Public is much more interested in strife - tanks, guns, bombs.. revolutions and associated things. The world wants an interactive apocalypse. We're an active, energetic, new generation and we'll have none of that quiet despair nonsense.

[pErvinalia]

[cronus]

I've seen Fury Road. It was totally unrealistic. World Health Organisation killed the world. That was right, though. See your Ebola sleeps in the eyeball. And ISIS only needs to scoop out enough eyeballs, well within its remit for atrocity, and it'll have a eyeball bomb. Might seem sci-fi now but give it a few months. And you'll see(or not)....I was right all along. Whimper always wins over a bang for the exit line in a movie.

[JimC]

Back to classic Scumple, I see. For a while there, you were almost human..

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Back to classic Scumple, I see. For a while there, you were almost human..