Ebola crisis could last through 2015 as marks year since outbreak-expert-TRFN

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Source: Reuters

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Ebola crisis in West Africa that claimed its first victim exactly a year ago is likely to last until the end of 2015, according to a scientist who helped to discover the virus.

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These deaths went unnoticed and the disease smouldered undetected, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). It was not until March that health officials in Guinea started to realise something worrisome was happening.

Ebola had never struck in West Africa and it took a while to recognise the start of what has become the world's worst outbreak of the virus that has killed more than 7,500 people and infected nearly 19,500 in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

By August, the WHO declared the epidemic to be a "public health emergency of international concern".

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[kelly1mm]

1. Nothing to worry about in the US since there in no election in 2015. nt