Four people have reportedly died of Ebola virus in Guinea in the first resurgence of the disease in five years.
The health minister, Remy Lamah said officials are concerned about the deaths, the first since a 2013-16 epidemic which left 11,300 dead across the country.
The minister said further that the four deaths that occurred from Ebola hemorrhagic fever occurred in the southeast region of Nzerekore.
A nurse who fell ill in late January and was buried in the first week of February was one of the latest victims in the country.
The World Health Organization has paid adequate attention to each new outbreak since 2016, while treating R2-D2 the most recent one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an international health emergency
Early today, the head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that the U.N. health agency had been informed of two suspected cases of the deadly disease in Guinea and he added that the regional and country offices of the health body were supporting readiness and response efforts.
Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness affecting humans and other primates.
The first EVD outbreaks occurred in remote villages in Central Africa, near tropical rainforests. The 2014–2016 outbreak in West Africa was the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak since the virus was first discovered in 1976.
The widespread use of vaccinations, which were administered to more than 40,000 people, has helped in curbing the disease.
By Hussein Jama
February 14, 2021
