What if the Ebola hemorrhagic fever case in Côte d'Ivoire was not?

Guinea on Thursday asked the Ivorian health authorities to carry out a new analysis of the young Guinean in whom the Ebola virus was detected on Saturday in Abidjan.

The country has doubts about the initial diagnosis made on the young Guinean of 18, arrived in Côte d'Ivoire on August 11 from the Guinean city of Labé (north), a journey of more than 1,500 km that she took. done by road.

"The improvement of the symptoms of the disease and the improvement of the clinical picture in 48 hours raise questions, knowing the classic evolution of the disease", wrote the Guinean Minister of Health, Rémy Lamah, in an official letter.

The minister also underlined, in this letter addressed to the World Health Organization (WHO), that the Guinean medical team sent to Abidjan had not been able to have access to the patient.

Request for reconfirmation by another lab

The city of Labé, where the young Guinean is from, "did not record any cases of Ebola virus disease during the national episodes of 2014-2016 and 2021", underlined Rémy Lamah.

"Considering all of the above, Guinea is requesting from the Ivorian authorities through the WHO a reconfirmation of this case through the Pasteur Institute in Dakar and if possible another accredited laboratory", added the Minister.

During her trip, the young girl notably crossed Forest Guinea, where the 2021 epidemic was triggered, but also the one that hit West Africa between the end of 2013 and 2016. This case was detected less than two months after Guinea - one of the poorest countries in the world - declared the end of an Ebola epidemic that erupted earlier this year, killing 12 people.

Guinea has already been severely affected by hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus, which had killed 2,500 people there between the end of 2013 and 2016 and which had killed more than 11,300, including among its Liberian and Sierra Leonean neighbors, two others from among the poorest countries in the world.

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