Uganda has declared the end of a nearly four-month Ebola outbreak.
That announcement was made at a ceremony on Wednesday (January 11) by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng.
"The outbreak is over and Uganda is now free of active Ebola transmission."
Cases initially spread beyond the epicenter of Mubende to several other districts including the capital Kampala.
But health officials were able to swiftly turn the tide by imposing lockdowns.
And that's despite the fact that the strain behind this outbreak, Ebola Sudan, has no proven vaccine.
The World Health Organization's Uganda representative, Dr. Yonas Tegegne Woldemariam, said it was not just Uganda's success, but the world's.
"... and the global health community will learn and follow Uganda so that Ebola is not as scary, Ebola is not as devastating, as we used to know it."
Ebola spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person and has a fatality rate of about 50%.
More than 11,300 people died during the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa.
The latest outbreak killed 55 out of the 143 people it infected since September, according to health ministry figures.
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