The number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone in western Africa has dropped to 19, the lowest total this year, according to the World Health Organization.
The situation was “encouraging,” the United Nations health agency said in an update published this week, but noticed officials are still unable to track exactly where Ebola is spreading.
In Guinea, five of the country’s nine new cases were detected only after the patients died, because none had sought treatment in a hospital. In Sierra Leone, only two of the nine cases were identifying as having come in contact with previous patients.
If no new cases are announced, the outbreak will be declared over on May 9 in Libera.
To date, WHOA estimates the virus has killed more than 11,000, mostly in West Africa.
(h/t the Associated Press)
