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The
"end of active transmission" will be declared, after 42 days without
a new case in Liberia.
It joins
Guinea and Sierra Leone, which earned the status last year.
However,
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has warned that West Africa may see flare-ups of the
virus. It has killed more than 11,000 people since December 2013.
A country
is considered free of human-to-human transmission once two 21-day incubation
periods have passed since the last known case tested negative for a second
time.
However,
the end of active transmission of Ebola has been declared twice before in
Liberia - only for the infection to re-emerge.
This is
why the expected declaration by WHO later today will be marked with
caution.
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