Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Guinea’s Minister of Health, Remy Lamah, announces the second wave of the outbreak ebola which has plagued his country since February 2021 is now over.
“I solemnly declare the end of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea,” Lamah said during a press conference in the capital Conakry, Saturday (19/6) citing Reuters.
Separately, the World Health Organization (WHO) also confirmed that the outbreak, which has killed 12 people since last February, has ended.
To note, the second wave of the Ebola outbreak began to attack Guinea around the beginning of 2021.
Around February 16, Guinean authorities recorded at least 10 suspected Ebola patients, of which five died.
At that time, the Guinean Ministry of Health had also identified at least 115 contacts in the city of Nzerekore, and 10 other cases in the African nation’s capital, Conakry.
As quoted from ReutersThe second wave of Ebola came after a number of suspected patients attended a funeral service in Goueke subprefecture. After that, some of them suffered from diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding.
Since then, authorities have traced contacts and isolated other guests present at the event.
Guinea also officially declared the discovery of a new Ebola outbreak on February 15 last.
In order to prevent the second wave of Ebola in Guinea from spreading badly, the WHO then sent around 24,000 doses of the vaccine. A total of 11,000 of them have been injected into residents of areas affected by this outbreak, including 2,800 health workers.
The first wave of Ebola outbreaks occurred in several West African countries in 2013-2016 which killed up to 11,300 people. Most of the patients who died were in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
For information, being infected with the Ebola virus can cause a severe fever and in the worst case, bleeding.
The Ebola virus infects through close contact with bodily fluids, such as through the blood or body fluids of the sufferer from wounds on the skin or the lining of the nose, mouth, and rectum.
Body fluids can be in the form of saliva, vomit, sweat, breast milk, urine, feces, semen. People who live with people with Ebola or care for patients are at risk of contracting it.
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