The government of Guinea-Conakri confirmed this Saturday the Ebola detection conducted in the first analyzes on people who showed their symptoms in the southeast of this country, where the outbreak that triggered the disease in West Africa started in late 2013 worst Ebola epidemic in history
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“Some initial tests were conducted at the European Union laboratory in Guéckédou. Those tests have confirmed that it is Ebola virus disease. We are going to do a second test in Conakry to confirm or deny the results,” he said. today the Guinean Minister of Health, Rémy Lamah, according to local media.
The results of that second analysis that would confirm the resurgence of the virus in Guinea are expected next Sunday. Warnings of a possible new outbreak have been in the Gouécké area, near the town of Nzérékoré (southeast) in recent days.
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There have already been four deaths suspected of being Ebola, as confirmed on the Guineaematin portal on Saturday by the Director-General of Guinea’s National Agency for Health Security (ANSS), Sakoba Keita.
There was a Gouécké nurse who fell ill at the end of January. She died between 27 and 28 January and was buried on 1 February in Gouécké. Among those who took part in the funeral, eight people showed signs: diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding , ‘explained Keita, who was nevertheless cautious until he got the second confirmation from the labs.
Three of the people who showed the symptoms later died and four others remain in the hospital in Nzérékoré. The eighth potentially infected person had escaped but was found and interned in the Conakry area on Friday.
No Ebola had been observed in Guinea-Conakry since the end of the major epidemic that hit West Africa between 2014 and 2016, the first cases of which had surfaced in precisely 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 those numbers may be conservative, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Ebola virus is transmitted by direct contact with blood and contaminated human or animal body fluids, causes haemorrhagic fever and can reach a death rate of 90% if not treated in time. EFE