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“On Sunday, Conakry’s laboratory confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus,” said Sakoba Keita, director of the agency.
According to him, one person died of the virus in late January in southeastern Guinea, near the border with Liberia. After his funeral earlier this month, some of the participants in this ceremony showed obvious signs of Ebola virus disease and later, after testing the samples, it was found that they were signs of haemolagic Ebola fever. .
For his part, Alfred George Ki-Zebbo of the World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged to provide adequate assistance to Guinea as soon as possible. He stressed that the WHO is in contact with the manufacturers of vaccines against the virus so that they can be delivered urgently to those who need them.
According to Western media reports, no cases of the Ebola virus have yet been identified in neighboring Liberia, but the country’s authorities have instructed health authorities to be extremely vigilant.
In 2013-2016, the Ebola epidemic that began in Guinea claimed more than 11.3 thousand lives. lives of the people of the region. The WHO then closely monitors each Ebola outbreak. Several of them were captured in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this month.
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