It  warns against complacency and cautions that male survivors can infect their sexual partners for up to a year after recovering.

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The decision by WHO’s Ebola emergency committee comes following flare-ups that emerged in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone after authorities declared virus transmission over.

The announcement ends the international emergency declaration and the WHO urges that any restrictions put on the affected countries be lifted.

Vice chairman of the WHO Ebola emergency committee Robert Steffen says the organization’s current battle against Zika in no way dictated its decision to declare the Ebola emergency over.

He says flare-ups of new Ebola cases are not linked to the original chains of transmission dating back to December 2013.

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