Guinea is free from transmission of Ebola, formalized the World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement Tuesday, December 29, 2015.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the most serious since the identification of the virus in central Africa in 1976, Guinea began in late 2013. It has more than 11,300 deaths recorded some 29,000 cases a balance However undervalued, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The victims are concentrated to 99% in three neighboring countries: Guinea, Liberia, where the end of the epidemic was declared in May and September 2015, before the new resurgence of the virus, and Sierra Leone, declared on 7 November free transmission.
The end of the epidemic in Guinea, which officially account 2536 deaths per 3804 cases, was proclaimed in the morning by a WHO representative at a press conference in Conakry.
A country is officially free from transmission of Ebola after two periods of 21 days - the maximum incubation period of the virus - with no new cases since the second negative test on a patient cured.
But the risk persists beyond the 42 days, because of the subsistence of the virus in certain body fluids, particularly semen, where it can survive for up to nine months.
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