Nigeria's success in stamping out the deadly haemorrhagic fever Ebola is being hailed as a model for countries struggling to contain the deadly virus.

The World Health Organisation declared Nigeria free of the deadly Ebola virus on Monday after six weeks with no new cases, an achievement with lessons for countries still struggling to contain the deadly virus.
This year's Ebola outbreak, the worst on record, has killed 4,546 people across the three most-affected countries, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Its arrival in Lagos, an overcrowded city of 21 million people, sparked fears of a doomsday scenario in which it becomes impossible to contain because contacts are too diffuse to trace.
As the commercial hub of Africa's most populous nation, largest economy and leading energy producer, it would have been an ideal springboard for Ebola to spread across the country.
The first case in Nigeria was imported from Liberia when Liberian-American diplomat Patrick Sawer collapsed at the main international airport in Lagos on July 20.

Authorities were caught unawares, airport staff were not prepared and the government had not set up any hospital isolation unit, so he was able to infect several people, including health workers in the hospital where he was taken.
But they acted fast after the doctor on duty, who later herself died of the disease, quarantined him in the hospital against his will and contacted officials.
Doctor Ameyo Adadevoh at the First Consultants hospital in Lagos where Sawyer was first brought kept him in the hospital despite his protests and those of the Liberian government, preventing the dying man from spreading it further, according to Benjamin Ohiaeri, a doctor there who survived the disease.
Ebola is much more contagious once symptoms become severe.
"We agreed that the thing to do was not to let him out of the hospital," Dr Ohiaeri said, even after he became aggressive and demanded to be set free.
"If we had let him out, within 24 hours of being here, he would have contacted and infected a lot more people ... The lesson there is: stand your ground."
Once the hospital contacted the ministries of health in the state of Lagos and the federal ministry in Abuja, authorities quickly set up and equipped an isolation unit.
Nigeria's success in preventing the spread of the disease contrasts with its slower and more fractious response to crises such as the kidnapping in April of more than 200 girls still being held by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
The announcement that Nigeria has, for now at least, stamped out the deadly haemorrhagic fever, follows a similar declaration in much smaller Senegal, where one case was imported from Guinea.
Officials hope such success stories will change the way the West, where many are currently in the grip of a panic about a disease brought to their shores from Africa, sees the crisis.

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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11174554/How-Nigeria-beat-the-Ebola-virus.html