announce later on this week that Nigeria and Senegal are free of Ebola after 42 days with no infections.
outbreak over, twice the maximum 21-day incubation
period of the virus.
According to a statement signed by the Director of
Information in the Ministry of Health, Mrs. Ayotunde
Adesugba, WHO will soon make the official declaration after Nigeria successfully curbed the virus which was imported into the country by Liberia-American, Patrick Sawyer, in July. The country recorded seven deaths in the process. However, one of the discoverers of the deadly virus said on
Tuesday that sex could keep the Ebola epidemic alive even after the World Health Organization (WHO) declares an area free of the disease.
'In a convalescent male, the virus can persist in
semen for at least 70 days; one study suggests
persistence for more than 90 days,' the WHO said in
an information note on Monday.
'Certainly, the advice has to be for survivors to use a
condom, to not have unprotected sex, for 90 days,'
said Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a discoverer of
Ebola in 1976.
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