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The Government of

Guinea-Conakry

confirmed this Saturday the detection of Ebola in the first analyzes carried out on people who showed their symptoms in the southeast of this country, where at the end of 2013 the outbreak that unleashed

the worst

in West Africa

Ebola epidemic in history.

"There were some first tests that were carried out in the European Union laboratory in Guéckédou. Those tests have confirmed that it is the Ebola virus disease. We are going to do a second test in Conakry to confirm or deny the results," he said. this Saturday the Guinean Minister of Health,

Rémy Lamah,

according to local media.

The results of that second analysis that would

ratify the resurgence of the virus in Guinea

are expected this Sunday.

Alerts of a possible new outbreak jumped in recent days in the Gouécké area, near the city of Nzérékoré (southeast).

There were already

four deaths suspected of being Ebola,

as confirmed this Saturday to the Guineematin portal by the director general of the National Agency for Health Security (ANSS) of Guinea, Sakoba Keita.

"There was a Gouécké nurse who fell ill towards the end of January. She died between January 27 and 28 and was buried on February 1 in Gouécké.

Among those who participated in the burial there are eight people who have presented signs : diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding, "

explained Keita, who nevertheless was prudent until having the second confirmation from the laboratories.

Three of the people who showed symptoms subsequently died and four others remain hospitalized in Nzérékor

é.

The eighth potential infected had escaped

but was found this Friday and interned 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 had emerged precisely in this country at the end of 2013.

It was the worst in history with

1,300 deaths and more than 28,500 were infected,

although those figures, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) could be conservative.

The Ebola virus is transmitted

through direct contact with blood and

contaminated

body fluids

of people or animals, causes hemorrhagic fever and can reach a mortality rate of 90% if it is not treated in time.

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