Guinea Declared Ebola-Free
![Colorized scanning electron micrograph of filamentous Ebola virus particles (red) attached and budding from a chronically infected VERO E6 cell (blue) (25,000x magnification).](https://thumbnails.texastribune.org/U9q6tgSES1Y10KucWqL7gtsCX-A=/850x570/smart/filters:quality(75)/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2014/10/07/Ebola-NewImage.jpg)
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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