Ebola returns to Guinea and immediately raises the alarm.
"We are facing an epidemic," assured the head of the Guinea health agency Sakoba Keita, after a meeting on the emergency in the capital.
The alarm was raised yesterday by the discovery of seven confirmed cases, with three deaths, the first deaths in five years caused by haemorrhagic fever.
"Very early this morning - he added - the Conakry laboratory confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus".
Immediate intervention by the WHO, which ensured "rapid assistance" to Guinea.
