EBOLA: UNITED NATIONS PREDICTS EBOLA OUTBREAK IN WEST AFRICA WILL BE OVER BY AUGUST 2015

The Head, United Nations Ebola mission,  Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has told the BBC that the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa is likely to end by August, 2015.
The Ebola virus has killed more than 10,000 people since its outbreak last year.

Ismail Ould Cheik Ahmed  further said to BBC that when the virus first struck, " there was probably a lack of knowledge and there was a certain degree of arrogance, but I think we are learning lessons".
"We have been running away from giving any specific date, but Iam pretty sure myself that it will be gone by the summer".

The first person to die from the Ebola disease is thought to be a toddler in a remote part of Guinea who died in December 2013.

The Ebola outbreak was then officially announced by World Health Organisation (WHO) three months later and a further five months before the organisation declared it a global health emergency by which time over 1,000 people had died.



culled from BBC Africa.