Ebola WHO announces end of Ebola outbreak in southern Sudan

7 August 2004 Press release Geneva - Today marks the 42nd day since the last person identified as infected with Ebola haemorrhagic fever died on 26 June 2004 in Yambio Hospital, southern Sudan. As 42 days is twice the maximum incubation period for Ebola, and as no further cases have been identified, WHO declares today that the outbreak in southern Sudan is over. "The rapid containment of this outbreak was a tremendous success for the health authorities, WHO, and the international community…