The Last Place on Earth With Ebola: Getting Guinea to Zero

NEW YORK TIMES by Dionne Searcey          Nov. 7, 2015

TANA, Guinea  ....

This is the last known place on Earth with Ebola.

After nearly 22 months and more than 11,300 deaths worldwide, the deadliest Ebola epidemic in history has come down to a handful of cases in a cluster of villages in rural Guinea, the country where the outbreak began.

A World Health Organization worker checked the temperature of one of Seydouba Soumah’s sons in the village of Tana, Guinea Credit Samuel Aranda for The New York Times

...And while the virus once raged in Guinea, now it is merely smoldering, with seven new cases reported in recent weeks. Yet it is proving frustratingly difficult to stamp out altogether.Getting to zero — as the effort to finally stop the outbreak is known — has bedeviled governments and international health experts for months. ...

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