Guinea declares first Ebola outbreak since 2016, after confirming 7 new cases linked to a funeral

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Guinea has declared an Ebola outbreak for the first time since 2016, when a two-year outbreak in West Africa finally ended after killing more than 11,000 people.

The new outbreak, in the town of Gouécké, has already killed three — two women and a man. They were among seven people who attended a nurse's funeral on February 1 and later came down with diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. All seven cases have now been confirmed as Ebola virus.

The four people who are still alive have been isolated and contact tracing has begun, Guinea's health ministry, Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire (ANSS), said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Here we go again.
 
Guinea has declared an Ebola outbreak for the first time since 2016, when a two-year outbreak in West Africa finally ended after killing more than 11,000 people.
NOW THAT ONE... THAT ONE I'M SCARED OF.
 

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