The UN's health agency on Tuesday declared Guinea's Ebola outbreak over two years after it emerged, spreading death across West Africa and pushing the region's worst-hit communities to the brink of collapse.
One of the poorest nations in the world, the former French colony was the host for "patient zero" - an infant who became the first victim - and health authorities went on to record some 2,500 deaths.
"Today the World Health Organization (WHO) declares the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea," the UN agency said in a statement in Geneva, according to AFP.