"The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday officially declared that Nigeria is free of Ebola virus transmission after a 42-day period without new cases.
WHO hailed this latest scenario as "a spectacular success story that shows that Ebola can be contained," noting that the ending of Ebola in Nigeria stamped out a "potentially the most explosive Ebola outbreak imaginable" given the population size and economic importance of the Western African country."
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In Dallas, Louise Troh and several friends and family members will finally be free Monday to leave a stranger's home where they have been confined under armed guard for 21 days - the maximum incubation period for Ebola. They had close contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who died of the disease at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Oct. 8.
"I want to breathe, I want to really grieve, I want privacy with my family," Troh told The Associated Press.
The incubation period also has passed for about a dozen health workers who encountered Duncan when he went to the Dallas hospital for the first time, on Sept. 25.