The OMS declares free country Nigeria Ebola transmission

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed Monday that Nigeria is a country free of Ebola and congratulated the nation for the diligence with which he has managed to control the spread of the disease.
In a statement, WHO notes that to rule that a person will develop the disease must spend 42 days (twice the incubation period of Ebola virus) without showing symptoms.

In the case of Nigeria have already spent 42 days all persons who had contact with the initial carrier or with some of the people it infected have not developed the disease, Efe said.
The country, one of the most populous African continent, responded quickly and effectively to contain the outbreak manner, as well as monitoring contacts of infected people, the WHO said last Friday made ​​the same statement with Senegal.
So far the countries most affected with this virus are Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, all in Africa, and where there have been more than four thousand 500 dead.
According to WHO analysis, Ebola has killed 70 percent of infected people and for December will be about ten thousand new cases of people infected per week, according to reports Notimex.

How was the outbreak in Nigeria?
On 20 July, the Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, 42, fainted during his arrival at the airport in Lagos, Nigeria, from Monrovia, Liberia's capital, authorities suspected that suffered malaria which was immediately transported to clinic.
While being subjected to various medical tests was attended by several health workers, when it was learned that the diagnosis was had contracted Ebola and 11 employees of the hospital, four of whom died.
Initially, the official response was slow; however, a team of experts who responded to the fight against polio focused its efforts on the threat of Ebola.

How to beat Nigeria to Ebola?
After the danger of an outbreak, Nigeria opted for the identification and tracking of all who may have had contact with the patient, according to BBC reports.
The first involved were members of the medical staff and their families, then the number of people increased dramatically. BBC News notes that the initial contact list of 281 people, soon joined 894 Each was visited and subjected to repeated analysis of signs of infection.
Later scholars estimated how many people were living in the particular radius of the 894 people who were being monitored.
The result was that officers and volunteers embarked on rounds of visits that led to the extraordinary number of 26,000 houses.
A key policy in this arduous process was to involve communities and encourage people to be as honest as possible about their movements and contacts. This obviously worked.

In total, there were 19 confirmed cases of infection in Nigeria and eight deaths, including Patrick Sawyer, according to a memo signed by BBC journalist David Shukman.
This is a tragic figure for the families involved but infinitely smaller than it could have been.