Ebola virus can cause hemorrhagic fever with high mortality and outbreaks of the disease occur periodically in Central and West Africa.

This particular outbreak started in February and infected 16 people.

This time, the authorities were able to deal with the situation more quickly after learning from previous outbreaks in the region.

In this way, it was possible to ensure that the virus did not spread further outside the country's borders, according to WHO's Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

In 2014, 11,300 people died in an Ebola outbreak, most of them from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.