Unless a new case is diagnosed in the coming hours, Liberia is expected to announce tomorrow that the country is officially free of Ebola. Cases have been down there since October, and May 9 mark 42 days since the last confirmed Ebola patient in the country was buried safely. The incubation period for Ebola is up to 21 days, and the World Health Organization requires a country to go twice this period without case before declaring the official end of an epidemic.
" May 9 is our day magic ," said the Liberian Minister of Commerce and Industry Axel Addy reporters earlier this week, according to Voice of America. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already adjusted its travel advice not recommending against non-essential travel. National Public Radio describes some of the challenges the country still faces , including survivorship care, keeping vigilant for reintroductions of Guinea or Sierra Leone, and training replacements for physicians and health workers who died in the epidemic.
* Ebola files: science and Science Translational Medicine made a collection research and articles on the Ebola virus and the current epidemic available for researchers and the general public.
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