W.H.O. Officials Report a Drop in New Ebola Cases

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The World Health Organization on Wednesday reported the lowest weekly total of new cases in the West Africa Ebola epidemic this year, calling it an encouraging development but expressing caution about complacency until all infections from the highly contagious virus have been eradicated. In an update posted on the organization’s website, it reported 18 confirmed Ebola cases for the week ended last Sunday — nine each in Guinea and Sierra Leone. In Liberia, the third country that has been ravaged by Ebola, the patient with the last confirmed case died on March 27 and was buried on March 28. If no new cases are reported through Saturday, 42 days from that burial, the outbreak will be declared officially over in Liberia. The number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak, which began more than a year ago, totaled at least 11,005 as of Sunday, the update said.