Showing posts with label Ebola: Liberia lifts the state of emergency but remains vigilant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ebola: Liberia lifts the state of emergency but remains vigilant. Show all posts

Ebola: Liberia lifts the state of emergency but remains vigilant


Sign of hope for West Africa, the country most affected by hemorrhagic fever did not extend this exceptional measure which was in force since last August.


Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf welcomed "the path even if the battle is not yet won against the disease. Today, we can all be proud of the progress, but our country is not yet free of Ebola. It will not be that when our neighbors will too. "


Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said that reopening markets would be set up as well as for schools and the night curfew will also be reduced.


Liberia breathe a little but in Guinea and Sierra Leone, the epidemic continues apace. Mali and tries to stem the contamination. In Bamako, two new cases were diagnosed and a nurse died Tuesday of the disease.


Yesterday, Doctors Without Borders announced the rapid establishment of the first three clinical trials of treatments whose results could be available as early as February.


The goal is to try to find an effective therapy against the disease. In the absence of specific treatment, the latter "is killing between 50 and 80% of those infected," according to MSF.


According to the latest toll released Wednesday by the WHO, the Ebola outbreak has already killed more than 5,100 deaths over 14 000 cases.