In the News this week on Ebola

On Thursday March 5 2015 the last Ebola patient was discharged from the Chinese Ebola treatment centre on the outskirts of Monrovia Liberia.
Beatrice Yardolo having won the battle over Ebola was not without scars has she had lost three of her five children to the deadly virus.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/03/05/last-ebola-patient-to-be-released-in-liberia

This is a welcome development in the country that seemed to have been hardest hit by the crisis.
According to the WHO more than 4000 of the over 9000 deaths occurred in Liberia.
No new cases have been reported in Liberia for more than two weeks.

Hence Liberia has begun the 42 days count down to the end of Ebola according to the WHO set standard.

The story is however not the same in the neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea where the virus is still raging.

58 new cases were reported in Guinea in the week that ended on Sunday the 8th of March as opposed to the 51 new cases reported the week before. Most of the new cases were found to have occurred around the capital city Conarky where 13 new cases were reported. 5 prefectures also reported new cases with Forecariah leading with a total of 28 new cases.

Sierra Leone also reported 58 new cases, with most of the cases being from and around  its capital Freetown. Freetown recorded 27 new cases, Portloko a neighboring district led the pack among the districts with new cases of Ebola, with a total of 12 new cases.

The new cases in both Sierra Leone and Guinea were said to have been from the Coastal regions around their capital cities : Freetown and Conarky respectively.


http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-11-march-2015

In Sierra Leone yesterday, (Wednesday, the 11th of March) a new phase II drug trial began in Port Loko. This new experimental drug is called TKM Ebola. Hopefully the trial will move to other sites and will progress to phase III.
So far there has been no success at obtaining an effective drug for this deadly virus.

http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2015/03/new-ebola-drug-trial-starts-sierra-leone