Nigeria Is Ebola-Free : Here’s What They Did Right | TIME
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de l’intérêt de l’ouverture des frontières (article signalé haut la main mais sans la main - au sens propre du terme) par Isabelle Saint-Saëns.
It’s been 42 days since the last new case
The World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of Ebola on Monday, a containment victory in an outbreak that has stymied other countries’ response efforts.
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“Keeping borders open. Nigeria has not closed its borders to travelers from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, saying the move
counterproductive. “Closing borders tends to reinforce panic and the notion of helplessness,” Shuaib said. “When you close the legal points of entry, then you potentially drive people to use illegal passages, thus compounding the problem.” Shuaib said that if public health strategies are implemented, outbreaks can be controlled, and that closing borders would only stifle commercial activities in the countries whose economies are already struggling due to Ebola.”
