Countries At Heart Of Ebola Outbreak See First Virus-Free Week

Oct 07, 2015 02:33 PM By Reuters

A health specialist takes a blood sample from an Ebola survivor. — An Ebola survivor who volunteered to participate in a study in Monrovia on June 18, 2015. Liberia launched a five-year study to unravel the mystery of the long-term health effects that plague Ebola survivors and assess how long they should go without having sex. Getty Images

DAKAR (Reuters) - The three West African countries at the heart of an Ebola epidemic recorded their first week with no new cases since the U.N. World Health Organisation recognized the outbreak in March 2014, it said on Wednesday.

More than 11,000 people have died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the world's worst outbreak of Ebola, but there were no new cases in the week to Oct. 4, it said.

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