Nigeria Free of Ebola as WHO Says Virus Can Be Contained
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The World Health Organization declared Nigeria Ebola-free after a six-week halt in new cases of the disease that killed seven people in Africa’s most-populous country.
“The outbreak in Nigeria has been defeated,” Rui Vaz, WHO’s country representative for Nigeria, told reporters today in Abuja, the capital. “This is a spectacular success story that shows the world that Ebola can be contained.”