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Guinea Declared Ebola-Free

The World Health Organization declared Guinea free of the deadly Ebola virus in late December, a long-awaited public health triumph over an illness that killed more than 2,500 people in the past two years.

by John Reynolds

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of filamentous Ebola virus particles (red) attached and budding from a chronically infected VERO E6 cell (blue) (25,000x magnification).
Credit: NAID

The World Health Organization declared Guinea free of the deadly Ebola virus in late December, a long-awaited public health triumph over an illness that killed more than 2,500 people in the past two years. (NPR)

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