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Two New Ebola Cases Confirmed

Just hours after WHO (World Health Organization) declared Sierra Leone’s most recent Ebola outbreak over, there are reports that two people have tested positive for the virus in Leone’s neighboring country of Guinea: Four people were tested and two of them were found to have Ebola, a government agency spokesman said. They were all from Korokpara, a village where three people from the same family have died in the past few weeks from diarrhea and vomiting. “All of the sick people have been taken to the Nzerekore treatment center,” the National Coordination of the Fight against Ebola in Guinea’s Fode Tass Sylla said.  The world’s worst recorded Ebola epidemic is believed to have started in Guinea and killed about 2,500 people by December last year, at which point the WHO said the virus was no longer being actively transmitted. More than 11,300 people have died since the outbreak began in 2013, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The WHO did warn on Thursday however that Ebola could resurface at any time, since it can linger in the eyes, central nervous system and bodily fluids of some survivors.  It was not immediately clear how the villagers from Korokpara had contracted [...]