This is the first time that this highly contagious disease has resurfaced in West Africa.
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En Guinea, four people died from the Ebola virus. This was reported by the Guinean Minister of Health on Saturday. This is the first time that this highly contagious disease has resurfaced in West Africa. In 2013, also in Guinea, an Ebola virus epidemic began, which reached ten countries in more than three years and claimed more than 11,000 victims. “We are really worried,” Minister Rémy Lamah said. “We already have four deaths from the Ebola virus in the south-eastern region of Nzérékoré”.
“A nurse fell ill at the end of January and died a few days later,” the director of the national health agency Sakoba Keita told the GuineeMatin news site. “Of the people who attended the funeral on February 1, eight had symptoms: diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding. Among them, three died, four others were admitted to a hospital in Nzérékoré. The eighth person escaped but was found and admitted to a hospital in the capital, Conakry.
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The minister and the director of the agency say that the Ebola virus was detected in samples analyzed in the region, in a laboratory set up by the European Union. The results of additional analyzes are expected in the coming hours.
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“As a human being, I am worried, but I remain calm because we have the epidemic under control and vaccination is possible,” said the minister. Sunday there will be another crisis meeting.
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The first cases were identified at the end of 2013 in the same forest region in south-eastern Guinea, but the minister stressed that there had been no new cases since 2016. From Guinea, the Ebola virus has spread. spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2014 in what ultimately became the worst Ebola virus outbreak ever. Finally, there were also cases in Spain and the United States. The majority of the nearly 29,000 cases have been identified in the three West African countries.
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