"The virus is gone for now," WHO country representative Rui Gama Vaz said Monday in the capital, Abuja. "The outbreak in Nigeria has been defeated. This is a spectacular success story that shows to the world that Ebola can be contained."
On July 25, Nigeria's Health Ministry had confirmed that a US-Liberian dual citizen had died of Ebola in Lagos and quickly tracked down and isolated all who had had contact with the man, whose condition was caught at the airport.
Nigeria's success in containing Ebola represents a rare success story in West Africa, were more than 9,200 people have become infected and 4,500 have died, almost all of them in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. However, fears of contagion have grown across the world,especially in the United States, where three cases were diagnosed - a patient and two health care workers who treated him - and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has compared the current outbreak to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
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