Guinea confirms new cases of Ebola

                                                                                         (C)AFP

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. 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.
An emergency meeting will be held on Friday with the Ministry of Health, said Dr Sakoba Keita, the national coordinator of the fight against Ebola.  Guinea was declared free from Ebola on December 29. It would be celebrating the end of its 90-day heightened surveillance period at the end of March. The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has killed more than 11,300 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.