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Recently World Health Organisation declared Nigeria as Ebola free nation, it is because the country since 42 days report ebola case and another West African country Senegal was declared free of Ebola.

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.

With population more than 170 million it was really a Mamooth task for health administration to get rid of the disease that has claimed nearly 5000 lives in Africa.

Latest statistics from WHO show that nearly 9,216 people have contracted the illness and at least 4,555 have died.

“In a piece of world-class epidemiological detective work, all confirmed cases in Nigeria were eventually linked back to the Liberian air traveller who introduced the virus into the country on July 20,” says WHO.

Nigeria's success to the intense and rapid contact tracing strategy, the continuous surveillance of potential contacts, and the largely effective isolation of infectious individuals.

Technology was instrumental in Nigeria’s fight against Ebola. A report published in the Financial Times also talks about Lawal Bakare, a 31-year-old dentist who helped the government with a social media campaign.We are spreading on Twitter much faster than the Ebola virus. He added

Another reason that experts believe helped to curb the spread was not closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. This prevented people from using illegal boundaries and also saved the economy from crashing down.

Aw: Arun kumar