The government of Guinea-Conakri confirmed this Saturday Ebola detection in the first tests performed on people who showed symptoms in the south-eastern part of this country, where at the end of 2013 the outbreak that triggered the disease in West Africa took place the worst Ebola epidemic in history.
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“There were some first tests that were performed in the European Union’s laboratory in Guéckédou. These tests confirmed that it was Ebola disease. We will do a second test in Conakry to confirm or deny the results,” he said. today, Guinea’s Minister of Health Rémy Lamah, according to local media.
The results of that second analysis that would ratify the recurrence of the virus in Guinea are expected on Sunday. Alerts about a possible new outbreak have erupted in recent days in the Gouécké area, near the town of Nzérékoré (southeast).
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There have already been four suspected Ebola deaths, as confirmed on Saturday in the Guinea portal by the director general of the National Agency for Health Security (ANSS) in Guinea, Sakoba Keita.
“She was a Gouécké nurse who fell ill in late January. She died between 27 and 28 January and was buried on 1 February in Gouécké. Among those who attended the funeral were eight people who showed signs: diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding, “said Keita, who was cautious until she had her second confirmation from the lab.
Three of the people who showed symptoms later died and four others remain hospitalized in Nzérékoré. The eighth potentially infected had escaped, but was found on Friday and hospitalized in the Conakry area.
Ebola had not been detected in Guinea-Conakry since the end of the great epidemic that struck West Africa between 2014 and 2016 and whose first cases appeared in this country at the end of 2013.
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It was the worst in history, with 1,300 deaths and more than 28,500 infected, although these figures, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), could be conservative.
The Ebola virus is transmitted through direct contact with blood and body fluids contaminated by humans or animals, causes hemorrhagic fever and can reach a mortality rate of 90% if not treated in time. EFE