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Agence France-Presse

Four people have died of Ebola in the West African country of Guinea in the first resurgence of the disease in five years, according to the country’s health minister.
Remy Lamah said officials were “really concerned” about the deaths, the first since a 2013-2016 epidemic – which began in Guinea – left 11,300 dead across the region.
One of the latest victims in Guinea was a nurse who fell ill in late January and was buried on February 1, National Health Security Agency head Sakoba Keita told local media on Saturday.
“Among those who took part in the burial, eight people showed symptoms: diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding,” he said. “Three of them died and four others are in hospital.”
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The four deaths from Ebola haemorrhagic fever occurred in the southeast region of Nzerekore, he said.
Keita also told local media that one patient had “escaped” but had been found and hospitalised in the capital Conakry. He confirmed the comments to AFP without giving further detail.
The World Health Organization has eyed each new outbreak since 2016 with great concern, treating the most recent one in the Democratic Republic of Congo as an international health emergency.
On Sunday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that the UN health agency had been informed of two suspected cases of the deadly disease in Guinea.
“Confirmatory testing under way,” the tweet said, adding that WHO’s regional and country offices were “supporting readiness and response efforts”.

.@WHO has been informed of two suspected cases of Ebola in Guinea-Conakry. Confirmatory testing underway. @WHOAFRO and WHO country office supporting readiness and response efforts.
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) February 13, 2021

The DRC has faced several outbreaks of the illness, with the WHO on Thursday confirming a resurgence three months after authorities declared the end of the central African country’s latest outbreak.
A third Ebola case was reported in North Kivu province, provincial health minister Eugene Nzanzu Salita said on Friday.
The case was found in Butembo, a city of over 1 million people and the epicentre of a previous major outbreak of the disease.
DR Congo reports fresh Ebola outbreak as it fights coronavirus
“We are in a meeting to gather all the information on the investigations done around this case,” said Salita.
The DRC’s health ministry announced a resurgence of the disease on February 7, after a woman contracted Ebola and died. She was married to a survivor of the previous outbreak.
On Friday, 1,200 doses of Ebola vaccine and cold chain equipment arrived in Butembo, the health ministry and WHO said in a statement.

Health workers are training vaccinators and tracing more than 100 contacts in the districts of Biena and Katwa, the statement said.
The country had declared the six-month epidemic over in November. It was the country’s 11th Ebola outbreak, claiming 55 lives out of 130 cases.
The widespread use of vaccinations, which were administered to more than 40,000 people, helped curb the disease.
Explainer | What are the coronavirus mRNA vaccines and how do they work?
The 2013-2016 outbreak sped up the development of a vaccine against Ebola, with a global emergency stockpile of 500,000 doses planned to respond quickly to future outbreaks, the vaccine alliance Gavi said in January.
The virus was first discovered near the Ebola river in 1976. It causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea and is spread through contact with body fluids.


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Guinea reports first Ebola deaths since 2016, as DR Congo battles fresh outbreak

A medical worker puts on protective gear in an isolation ward of a hospital in Guinea, which is seeing the first resurgence of the Ebola haemorrhagic fever since a 2013-2016 epidemic left thousands dead. Photo: AFP

A medical worker checks the quarantine area of the Matanda Hospital in Butembo, where the first case of Ebola died, in the North Kivu province of Congo Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. A second case and death of Ebola has been recorded in Congo's North Kivu province after a 60-year-old woman died Wednesday, according to officials. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)

DR Congo emerges from longest, deadliest Ebola outbreak but virus struggle is far from over

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has officially declared an end to an epidemic of Ebola that broke out in the east of the country in August 2018 and went on to claim 2,287 lives. Photo: AFP

FILE - in this Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 file photo, Nobel Peace Prize 2018 winner Doctor Denis Mukwege of Congo arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, to meet France's President Emmanuel Macron. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege has stepped down Wednesday, June 10, 2020 from a COVID-19 task force in eastern Congo, saying his hospital needs to focus on treating coronavirus patients because testing delays and other problems have allowed the crisis to deepen. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Outbreak fears worsen as Ebola death toll in DR Congo passes 2,000 ahead of UN chief’s assessment

Health workers equip themselves in protective equipment in Beni, North Kivu province. Photo: EPA-EFE

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 16, 2019 in Goma, a woman gets her temperature measured at an Ebola screening station as she enters the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Rwanda. - DR Congo Ebola death toll crosses 2,000, officials said on August 30, 2019. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

School going pupils from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are seen crossing the Mpondwe border point separating Uganda and the DRC on August 14, 2019. - Every day at dawn, Doneka Kabowo, a Congolese teenager, walks miles into the jungle, with the threat of armed militiamen who roam the area, to go to school across the border in Uganda. But for some time now, another obstacle has developed for the 15-year-old and hundreds of schoolchildren who daily travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Uganda to study: health checks for prevent the transmission of the Ebola virus. (Photo by ISAAC KASAMANI / AFP)

epa07803554 (FILE) - Health workers from Bwera hospital prepare to transport the body of a fifty-year-old woman who died of Ebola to the burial site in Bwera, a border town close to Democratic Republic of the Congo in western Uganda, 13 June 2019 (reissued 30 August 2019). According to officials, a girl from entering Uganda from DR Congo has been diagnosed with ebola by a screening team at Mpondwe border crossing. EPA-EFE/MELANIE ATUREEBE *** Local Caption *** 55270600

Ebola no longer ‘incurable’ after discovery of two highly effective treatments, scientists say

A health worker fills a syringe with Ebola vaccine in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Reuters

File-In this July 13, 2019 file photo, health workers wearing protective gear check on a patient isolated in a plastic cube at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. Health authorities in Congo have halted an Ebola treatment study early with good news: Two of the four experimental drugs seem to be saving lives. More than 1,800 people have died in the African country’s yearlong outbreak. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

FILE PHOTO: A child reacts as a health worker injects her with the Ebola vaccine, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo

WHO declares Congo Ebola outbreak a global health emergency

An Ebola virus virion. Photo: AP

FILE PHOTO: A Ugandan health worker prepares to administer the Ebola vaccine to a man in Kirembo village, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kasese district, Uganda June 16, 2019. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo

A woman gets her temperature measured at an Ebola screening station as she enters the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Rwanda on July 16, 2019 in Goma. - The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma has died, the governor of North Kivu province said on July 16, 2019. The case -- the first in a major urban hub in the region's nearly year-old epidemic of the disease -- has sparked deep concern in neighbouring Rwanda and at the UN. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. File photo: Reuters

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The West African country was the epicentre of an Ebola epidemic five years ago that left over 11,000 dead across the region
Meanwhile, the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a resurgence three months after it declared the end of the country’s latest outbreak



The West African country was the epicentre of an Ebola epidemic five years ago that left over 11,000 dead across the region.


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Guinea reports first Ebola deaths since 2016, as DR Congo battles fresh outbreak

The West African country was the epicentre of an Ebola epidemic five years ago that left over 11,000 dead across the region Meanwhile, the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a resurgence three months after it declared the end of the country’s latest outbreak

The West African country was the epicentre of an Ebola epidemic five years ago that left over 11,000 dead across the region

Meanwhile, the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a resurgence three months after it declared the end of the country’s latest outbreak