West Africa Ebola Outbreak No Longer Poses Global Risk: WHO


 Image: Sierra Leone celebrates Ebola free

GENEVA — West Africa's Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes a threat to international public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, declaring an end to a nearly 20-month emergency that has killed about 11,300 people.

Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general, accepted the recommendations of a committee of independent experts who also called for lifting any travel and trade restrictions affecting Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. 

"The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)," Chan told a news briefing at WHO headquarters in Geneva.

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