Technology combined with good detective work was instrumental in Nigeria?? fight against Ebola Nigeria, Africa?? most populous country and the one to have been recently hit by Ebola, has just been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is because it has been 42 days since the country last reported an Ebola case. Days before Nigeria, another West African country Senegal was declared free of Ebola. With a population of more than 170 million, it was definitely a mammoth task for the health administration to get rid of the deadly disease that has claimed nearly 5,000 lives in West Africa. Ebola first hit the country in the first week of September when Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer flew into the country from Liberia and collapsed at the airport. Since then, Nigeria has reported almost 20 cases of Ebola.

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