The World Health Organization has declared the end of the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation of Guinea, two years after the beginning of the epidemic.

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The Ebola outbreak has killed 2,536 people in the West African nation of Guinea. Two years after the beginning of the epidemic, the WHO has declared the end of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea.
The government in Guinea has blamed the virus for poor economic performance and says it has also caused people to distrust the country's health services.
President Alpha Conde has doubled the health budget since winning re-election in October 2015.
A country is declared Ebola-free after 42 days without a single new case since the recovery of the last Ebola patient. The WHO will maintain surveillance and outbreak response teams in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia throughout 2016.
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