Daily chart: Ebola in Africa: the end of a tragedy | The Economist
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AS OF January 14th 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the west African country of Liberia free of Ebola. Along with it, Africa as a whole is now clear of the killer virus. The outbreak that ravaged the region over the course of the last two years was the worst the world has ever seen. The first reported case dates back to December 2013, in Guéckédou, a forested area of Guinea near the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone. Travellers took it across the borders: by late March 2014, Liberia had reported eight suspected cases and Sierra Leone six. By the end of June that same year 759 people had been infected and 467 people had died from the disease. To date, 28,637 cases and 11,315 deaths have been reported worldwide, the vast majority of them in these same three countries.