Two bodies tested positive for Ebola in Guinea, the government said on Thursday, the first re-emergence of the virus in the West-African country since the outbreak there, was declared over there in December. Test samples from the two patients "revealed the presence of the Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus," the government said in a statement, while officials feared further suspected cases.
"For now, we have two confirmed cases and three suspected cases," Ibrahima Sylla, a spokesman for the national coordination for the fight against Ebola, added. The cases emerged from the same family out of Koropara, in the N'Zerekore prefecture, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) southeast of capital Conakrym.
Mr Sylla said that health authorities are taking appropriate measures to contain the spread of the disease. The UN health agency confirmed Guinea's new cases on its Twitter account. "WHO confirms that two people have tested positive for Ebola in N'zerekore Prefecture, Guinea," it said.
A source close to the local anti-Ebola coordination team told AFP that the two deceased patients were a married couple who had both shown symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea. "That attracted the attention of local people who alerted the health services in N'Zerekore," he said on condition of anonymity.
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