The Ebola virus, which had spread quickly in West Africa, killing more than 4,500 people, has now been successfully suppressed in two African countries; Senegal and Nigeria, according to the World Health Organisation.
Does it mean that the fight with the epidemic, which experts have labelled as the most serious acute health emergency recorded in modern times, is over? Dr. Boris Klempa from the Institute of Virology within the Slovak Academy of Sciences has just returned from Berlin from a conference on the subject:
“The end to the Ebola epidemic is definitely still far away. The situation in the three West African countries is really desperate.
So what is the notion of success when fighting against the Ebola virus? How come WHO has officially declared that Nigeria is now free of Ebola virus transmission?
“It seems that even this basic support treatment, if it’s done in time and on the needed level, helps. Nigeria is an example of such success, where the isolation and quarantine measures adopted in this economically more developed country have managed to stop the spread of Ebola. So I would say that even this kind of intensive support treatment helps”.
