Nzérékoré (Guinea) (AFP)
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Guinea officially announced on Saturday in Nzérékoré (south-eastern Guinea) the end of the second Ebola epidemic in this country, a few months after the reappearance of this disease.
"I have the honor to speak on this day of declaration of the end of the Ebola virus disease" in Guinea, declared a WHO official, Alfred Ki-Zerbo, during an official ceremony in Nzérékoré where the disease reappeared at the end of January.
"I would like, on behalf of the Head of State (President Alpha Condé), to declare the end of the resurgence of the Ebola virus disease in the Republic of Guinea", for his part indicated the Guinean Minister of Health, the general practitioner Rémy Lamah.
A total of 16 confirmed cases and seven probable cases were identified during this latest epidemic in Guinea.
Eleven patients survived and 12 died, according to a WHO statement released on Saturday.
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The press release does not give details of the deaths among the confirmed and probable cases.
A previous assessment given by the organization Thursday reported five deaths.
The 2021 epidemic was quickly defeated compared to 2013-2016.
At the time, she had left this same forest Guinea.
It had spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Between the end of 2013 and 2016, the worst epidemic in the world since the identification of the virus in 1976 had killed more than 11,300 people, mainly in Guinea (2,500 dead), Liberia and Sierra Leone, three of the poorest countries in the world.
An undervalued balance sheet, by the WHO's own admission.
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