Liberia’s last Ebola contacts finish quarantine

Cassius Kollie, 24, one of four people discharged on Monday from an Ebola treatment unit, receives a certificate for being cured of the disease in PaynesvilleMore than 160 people deemed at risk of catching Ebola in Liberia finished their mandatory surveillance period on Friday, taking the worst affected country a step closer to ending the epidemic. Liberia was the first of West Africa&;s three most badly hit countries to be declared Ebola-free, once in May and again in September, but each time new cases have mysteriously re-emerged. "We went 21 days and nobody became symptomatic," said Tolbert Nyenswah, the head of Liberia&039;s Ebola response.

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