Guinea government confirms that two people have died from Ebola

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Two members of the same family have died from Ebola in Guinea. It's the first re-emergence of the virus in the West African country since the outbreak was declared over last December.

Guinea government confirms that two people have died from Ebola
18.03.2016

The two cases emerged from a family from Koropara in the southern region of N'Zerekore, roughly 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) southeast of Guinea's capital, Conakry.

The two bodies, belonging to a man and a woman, tested positive for Ebola months after the outbreak had been declared over in the West African country, and mere hours after neighboring Sierra Leone had announced the end of the recent flare-up of the virus there. The Agence France news agency said that the two deceased patients were a married couple who had both shown Ebola symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea.

Test samples from the two patients "revealed the presence of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus," the government said in a statement.

"For now, we have two confirmed cases and three suspected cases," it added.