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Conakry enacts emergency response as old virus emerges By AFP Published: Feb 25, 2021 06:23 PM
Medical workers disinfect the coffin of a deceased unconfirmed Ebola patient inside an Ebola Treatment Centre run by the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA), in Beni on August 13, 2018. Photo: VCGA man in a navy suit grinned as he left an airbase in Guinea s capital Conakry on Wednesday after being vaccinated for Ebola, one of the first to receive the jab since the deadly disease reemerged in the West African country.
He was among a handful of people to volunteer for an early Ebola vaccination as part of a program the government hopes will crush the outbreak by April.
Ebola in Guinea: ALIMA prepares to respond to the country’s first outbreak since 2016
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Following the confirmation of several people infected with the Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea’s N’Zérékoré region, an emergency response team from ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) is already on the ground working with national and local authorities to conduct a needs assessment of the health structures and communities in the affected area, and prepare for an eventual support to the response.
“Our team is ready to support health authorities to manage the response against the outbreak by delivering care to patients and protecting health workers,” said Dr. Abdoul Bing, Medical Coordinator for ALIMA in Guinea. “ALIMA plans to bring all necessary means and closely work with the local communities to deliver health care according to optimized standards, in order to ensure the early care of patients. We know that it is what saves lives, because there are now trea
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Guinea declares Ebola outbreak with at least three deaths
By Isabella Kwai and Ruth Maclean New York Times,Updated February 15, 2021, 12:54 a.m.
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A health worker with Doctors Without Borders at an Ebola treatment center in Conakry, Guinea, on Nov. 4, 2015.SAMUEL ARANDA/NYT
Guinea is fighting a new outbreak of Ebola, health officials in the West African nation said Sunday, with at least three deaths in a region that was previously the starting point for the worldâs worst epidemic of the disease.
The three who died â two women and a man â were among seven people who fell ill with symptoms including diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding after attending the burial of a nurse in the countryâs southeast on Feb. 1, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
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Two people have contracted Ebola and died this week in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the health ministry said in a statement.
A 60-year-old woman who died on Wednesday in the district of Biena had a link with a woman who also died after contracting Ebola and was married to a survivor of the previous major outbreak, the statement said.
Congo’s health ministry has deployed a team to the area and is tracing more than 100 contacts of the two women in the health zones of Biena and Katwa, it said in the statement.