Guinea has received confirmation that the disease that has killed up to 59 people in the West African country, and may have spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone, is the haemorrhagic fever Ebola, reports [s]The Huffington Post[/s]. Cases of the disease – among the most virulent pathogens known to infect humans, with a fatality rate of up to 90% – have been registered in three south-eastern towns and in the capital Conakry since February. It has never before been recorded in Guinea. [b]World Health Organisation[/b] officials said that cases showing similar symptoms, including fever, diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding, had also been reported in an area of Sierra Leone near the border with Guinea. The international medical charity [b]Medecins Sans Frontieres[/b] is reinforcing its medical and logistics teams in Guinea in response to the epidemic.
[link url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/22/ebola-guinea_n_5014500.html]Full report in The Huffington Post[/link]