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The state, which was hit hard at the height of the epidemic in 2014, announced that five more patients had been admitted to isolation. Three new cases were also diagnosed in the Congo, months after the outbreak was announced. The virus causes severe vomiting and bleeding, but is less contagious than corona and in recent years vaccines and effective drugs have been developed.


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Ebola's new outbreak: first dead in Guinea since 2016

The state, which was hit hard at the height of the epidemic in 2014, announced that five more patients had been admitted to isolation.

Three new cases were also diagnosed in the Congo, months after the outbreak was announced.

The virus causes severe vomiting and bleeding, but is less contagious than corona and in recent years vaccines and effective drugs have been developed.

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Medical teams at Ebola outbreak center in Congo, 2019 (Photo: AP)

Three people have died of Ebola in Guinea, and five more have been infected with the virus, in a possible first outbreak since the epidemic peak between 2013 and 2016.

Patients suffered from diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding after attending the funeral of a woman in Guac County.

The official news agency in the country reported today (Sunday) that the five patients are isolated in treatment centers and that the medical staffs are working to locate their contacts.

It is unclear whether the sick woman who was a nurse at a local medical center and was buried on February 1 also died of Ebola.



According to the official news agency in the country, Guinea will work together with the World Health Organization and other international health organizations to purchase vaccines against Ebola.

These have significantly improved the chances of survival from the virus in recent years.



"The World Health Organization is stepping up preparations and response efforts for a possible outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, a region that suffered badly from Ebola in 2014," the organization's regional director, Mashidisu Moati, wrote on his Twitter account.



Ebola's last major outbreak in West Africa began in Guinea, killing at least 11,300 people, most of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Liberia has announced an increase in its level of surveillance following developments.

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The vaccines and improved treatments have helped eradicate the second outbreak of the disease to date, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The eruption was announced in June after more than 2,200 deaths in more than two years.

However, this month three new cases were diagnosed in one of the outbreak centers that was in the northern province of Kibu in the east of the country.



The virus causes severe vomiting and diarrhea and is spread through body fluids.

The mortality rate from it is much higher than that of the corona virus, but unlike it it does not pass through asymptomatic carriers.

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