In which country in Africa has Ebola spread most seriously in recent decades?

65438+On February 2nd, the World Health Organization 1 acknowledged for the first time that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was easing, and officially announced the end of the Spanish epidemic on February 2nd. So far, the largest Ebola outbreak in history has appeared since the end of last year. After going through the deterioration and upgrading and going out of Africa, the development track has begun to show an "inflection point".

This epidemic is the largest, most serious and complicated Ebola epidemic since 1976 first discovered Ebola virus, and the cumulative number of cases and deaths exceeds the sum of other Ebola epidemics.

According to the latest WHO epidemic data, in less than 1 year after the first case appeared, a total of 17 1 1 cases of suspected, possible or confirmed Ebola were found in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the hardest hit areas, with 6055 deaths. In addition to the three countries in West Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Spain, the United States and Mali also reported imported cases or local infection cases. Ebola virus not only went out of West Africa, but also "landed" in Europe and America.

With unprecedented assistance from the international community and strong leadership from relevant governments in West Africa, Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General of WHO, said at Geneva 1 that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is easing. At present, there are about 1 1,000 new cases per week in the three countries of West Africa, among which the number of new cases in Liberia has dropped significantly, and the epidemic situation in Sierra Leone and Guinea has eased significantly.

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