Nearly 18 months after the nation reported its first case, the WHO declared it Ebola-free.
Data management problems were linked to many challenges and presented a missed research opportunity, the team reported.
The child's case is the 4th—including a death—from the same family in Forecariah district.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday stepped down its travel warnings for both Sierra Leone and Liberia, with Ebola activity continuing at zero weekly cases in both countries.
Liberia was declared free of the disease for a second time on Sep 3, and Sierra Leone will reach that mark on Nov 7 if no new cases are detected before then.
Cases in a Liberian hot spot last summer may have been triple what was reported.
The group of 28 experts continues to offer Ebola vaccine guidance and says its concept could be used in other outbreaks.
Recommendations include executive-level management that spells out a national plan, pulls together a policy council, and unifies the biodefense budget.
For the 2nd week in a row, Guinea reported 3 new Ebola patients, all from the same family and one pregnant.
Two of the new cases were not part of known transmission chains, which is a concern.
The condition of a Scottish nurse who is hospitalized with neurologic complications following an Ebola infection has been upgraded from critical to serious but stable, Royal Free London hospital said yesterday in an update.
