Remy Lamah, Minister of health Guinea, told the Associated Press by phone, that for the first time, since 2016, Guinea has confirmed the Ebola virus, after a two-year (2014-2016) epidemic in West Africa finally ended, after killing more than 11,000 people. Health specialists in Guinea say these most recent cases might be a key setback for the broken nation.
The nation is already fighting with COVID-19 and is still recovering from the prior Ebola outbreak. The WHO confirmed that the epidemic killed 2,500 In Guinea. The disease also killed more than 11,3000 people in the epidemic, which too hit the nearest nations of Liberia and Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2016.
At least three people have died from Ebola, confirmed by Guinea Health Ministry on Sunday. The initial cases were confirmed since it was one of three West African nations to battle the world’s deadliest Ebola endemic that ended five years ago. The new epidemic has recently killed three in this, including a man and two women. They were among seven people who were present at a nurse’s last rites on February 1st, who came down with bleeding, headache, sore throat, fever, pain, fatigue, and this is followed by Diarrhea rash.
On Sunday, on a Facebook post, Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire (ANSS) said, seven cases of the Ebola virus were registered. Moreover, four people, among seven, who are still alive have been quarantined and their contact tracing has been started.
Ebola virus, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a severe as well as a frequent serious disease affecting humans and other primates, the virus is transferred to people from wild animals (such as porcupines, non-human prelates, and fruit bats,) and then spreads in the human population over straight interaction through the blood, secretions, organs or other human fluids of infected persons, and with surfaces and resources (e.g. bedding, clothing) dirty with these fluids.
The recovery of an Ebola virus is very concerning as it is already known for what it can do to the people, health infrastructure, and the economy said by Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, assistant professor of medicine for infectious diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina.
