Authorities in Sierra Leone last week quarantined 500 people after a man died from Ebola in an area where the deadly virus had been gone for months. They are especially challenging during the heavy rains in August.

“The progress is actual … as of right now we have now two cases (in the week to August. 2)”, Aylward informed a information briefing upon return from West Africa the place the epidemic has killed greater than 11,000 individuals since December 2013.

The name Dr. Rashida Kamara is synonymous with excellence as it brings to mind a retired female medical doctor who served this country for many years as the Police Doctor examining assault cases. The organization no longer recommends against non-essential travel to Liberia, which was declared Ebola free in May, but it still discourages travelers from visiting Sierra Leone following the outbreak.

“The biggest risk now is “irrational exuberance” to quote a famous economist or unrealistic expectations”. It won’t. We will have additional flares.

“The challenge now is to get to zero cases and that is not going to be easy”, he said.

Already this week, two new Ebola cases have been confirmed in Tonkolili, Sierra Leone, where several other suspect cases are being investigated, he said. It’s a realistic goal to have transmission stopped this year, WHO says. The rVSV-vectored Ebola vaccine had a 100 percent success rate in a clinical trial involving 7,651 people, according to the Lancet report. “Sometimes people run away with the idea that it’s a game changer”, Aylward said.

“The countries certainly they should be looking at stopping this in the near term”. “The game is still about case-finding, contact-tracing, rapid isolation, safe burials”.