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Three people have died of Ebola, and another five have tested positive for the virus in southeastern Guinea, the state health agency said, the first possible resurgence of the disease there because the world’s worst outbreak in 2013-2016.
The five still living have been isolated in therapy centres, the agency ANSS said on Sunday.
It wasn’t clear if the person buried on Feb. 1 — a nurse at the local gym who had fallen ill — had also died of Ebola.
The last major outbreak of Ebola in West Africa began in Guinea. It went on to kill at least 11,300 people with the vast majority of cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Another round of tests has been carried out to confirm the most recent Ebola diagnosis and health workers are working to trace and isolate the contacts of the cases, ANSS stated.
It said Guinea would contact the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international health agencies to acquire Ebola vaccines. The vaccines have greatly improved survival rates recently.
“WHO is ramping up readiness & response attempts to this possible resurgence of #Ebola in West Africa, a region which suffered so much from Ebola in 2014,” the agency’s Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti said on Twitter.
The vaccines and improved therapies helped efforts to end the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record, which was declared over in Democratic Republic of Congo last June after nearly two years and more than 2,200 deaths.
Congo reported three new Ebola cases this month in one of the epicentres of that epidemic in eastern North Kivu province.
The Ebola virus causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea and is spread through contact with body fluids. It has a much higher death rate than COVID-19, but unlike coronavirus it’s not transmitted by asymptomatic carriers.
